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Mr Harper: From the information sources available, there are currently nine employees of the Home Department under criminal investigation. None of these employees are from Border Force.

James Brokenshire: Home Office Ministers have regular visits and meetings as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Government’s practice to provide details of such visits.

Damian Green: The National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS)is a police controlled and operated scheme that currently comprises six courses that cover speeding, careless driving/riding and other driving behaviours or attitudes. It is a matter for individual chief officers of police whether to make one or more of these courses available. All police forces within the UK run at least one of these courses. The number of drivers that opted for these courses rather than accept penalty points is not known, but NDORS management advise that course attendance in 2010 was 467,601, in 2011, 793,689 and in 2012, 963,657.

The Department for Transport has been assisting the police in evaluating how educational and training courses adapt driver behaviour to prevent reoffending and is currently working with the police to develop a recidivism evaluation of each NDORS course.

Mr Harper: This information is not published by country, but is published by geographical region, from 2011-12 onwards. Therefore, a table is provided detailing income by region for the financial years 2011-12 and 2012-13, and is ranked according to 2012-13 income: