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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many prosecutions resulted in (a) convictions and (b) custodial sentences in each year since 1999 for offences related to (i) water resources, (ii) flood defences, (iii) fisheries, (iv) navigation, (v) process industry regulation, (vi) radioactive substances, (vii) waste and (viii) water quality as recorded in the National Enforcement Database; and what the average fines were where custodial sentences were awarded (A) in total and (B) broken down by region. [200915] Alun Michael: The information requested is provided in the following table. Environment agency: successful prosecutions and custodial sentences, calendar years 1999 to 2004 Date of report: 29 November 2004 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total convictions/custodial sentences 11999 2000 2001 Fisheries 0 0 27 0 22 0 Flood defence 2 0 1 0 2 0 Navigation 3 0 6 0 3 0 PIR 6 0 12 0 7 0 RAS 3 0 3 0 11 0 Water quality 177 0 219 0 234 0 Water resources 6 0 21 0 10 0 Waste 246 3 408 5 471 10 Total convictions/custodial sentences 2002 2003 22004 Fisheries 48 0 34 0 28 0 Flood defence 1 0 5 0 9 0 Navigation 15 0 32 0 20 0 PIR 3 0 5 0 1 0 RAS 1 0 3 0 2 0 Water quality 220 0 167 0 154 1 Water resources 11 0 6 0 15 0 Waste 498 4 406 7 374 7 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 April to December. 2 January to October.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

200915; 428 c1100-1W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Convictions Custodial treatment Fisheries Flood control Navigation Pollution Prosecutions Radioactive waste Water Waste

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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