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Home Office

Answer

Dr. Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were (a) arrested for and (b) charged with offences contrary to section 1 of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 or section 3 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 at (i) Heathrow Airport and (ii) Gatwick Airport in each financial year since 1993-94. [62390] Mr. Boateng: This information is not normally collected centrally. However, the Metropolitan police have been able to provide information on persons accused--that is, a count of persons arrested and subsequently proceeded against--and persons charged. The information relates to persons accused in the Heathrow division of attempting to commit a notifiable offence and those accused under section 3 and 4 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981. The information is shown in the table. The information for Gatwick airport is not available as this would incur disproportionate cost since manual searches through individual records would be required. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Persons at Heathrow Airport 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 Accused of attempting to {1}-- {1}-- 201 232 206 commit a notifiable offence Charged with the above {1}-- {1}-- 177 224 194 Accused of offences under 14 46 50 43 66 Sections 3 and 4 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 Charged with the above 6 32 41 37 65 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Not available

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

62390; 322 c111-2W;322 c115W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Arrests Airports Forgery Heathrow Airport Inchoate offences Metropolitan Police Gatwick Airport

Contains statistics

Yes