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Forgery: Coinage

Answer

Information provided by the Ministry of Justice on the number of persons found guilty for ““Making counterfeit coin or note”” under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, section 14, England and Wales 1997 to 2008 (latest available) can be viewed in the table.Court proceedings data for 2009 are planned for publication on 21 October 2010.

Number of persons convicted at all courts for offences relating to counterfeiting coins in England and Wales, 1997 to 2008¹, ², ³, 4
	Found guilty
1997	14
1998	17
1999	18
2000	19
2001	15
2002	11
2003	6
2004	11
2005	14
2006	13
2007	30
2008	13
¹ The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. ² Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. ³ Excludes data for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July, and August 2008. 4 Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 S.14 Offence description: "Making counterfeit coin or note". Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

8796; 513 c837W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Coinage Forgery

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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