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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions have been recorded for offences under the Explosives Acts in each of the last five years. [22349] Beverley Hughes: The information held centrally on the Home Office Court Proceedings Database relating to England and Wales for the years 1996-2000 is given in the table. Offenders convicted under the Explosives Acts, England and Wales, 1996 to 2000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total number convicted Principal statute Offence 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000{ 1} description Explosives Act 1875 Manufacture and \ (except sec. 80) and keeping of | Orders in Council and gunpowder and rules thereunder{2} other explosives Explosives Act 1923 and Offences in | 24 28 16 21 17 Orders in Council and relation to | rules thereunder{2} explosives, firearms etc. Fireworks Act 1951{2} Offences in relation to dangerous | fireworks and making of fireworks etc. / Explosives Act 1875 sec. Throwing, 34 49 36 27 40 80 casting or firing any fireworks in or into any highway, street, etc. public place Total 58 77 52 48 57 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for convictions at magistrates courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust at a detailed level and have been excluded from this table {2} Data for these offences are not separately identifiable on the Home Office Court Proceedings Database Note: All data are given on a principal offence basis

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

377 c90W; 22349

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Convictions Firearms Explosives Fireworks Production

Contains statistics

Yes

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