Written question asked by Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 25 November 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 30 November 2009. It was answered by Alan Campbell (Labour) on Tuesday, 1 December 2009 on behalf of the Home Office.

Crime: Public Transport

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many arrests for (a) drunk and disorderly conduct, (b) assault, (c) battery, (d) sexual assault, (e) indecent exposure, (f) theft and (g) breach of an anti-social behaviour order there were on (i) trains, (ii) buses and (iii) aeroplanes in each of the last five years in the lowest recorded administrative division for which figures are available, broken down by the (A) age and (B) ethnicity of the person arrested.

Answer: The information requested on arrests is not collected centrally.The arrests collection held by the Home Office covers arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, broken down at a main offence group level, covering categories such as violence against the person, sexual offences, robbery, burglary and drugs offences. The data are also broken down by age group, gender, ethnicity and police force area.It is not possible to identify the number of arrests there were made on buses, trains or aeroplanes.

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