Written question asked by Peter Bradley (Labour) on Wednesday, 14 April 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 29 April 2004. It was answered by Paul Goggins (Labour) on Thursday, 29 April 2004 on behalf of the Home Office.

Home Office

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time from arrest to court was for (a) persistent young offenders and (b) all offenders in The Wrekin in each year from 1997. - Table given.

Answer: Peter Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time from arrest to court was for (a) persistent young offenders and (b) all offenders in the Wrekin in each year from 1997. [166721] Paul Goggins: The information is as follows. Days _________________________________________________________________________________________________. West Mercia-- Persistent Young West Mercia Time Interval National figures-- Persistent Offenders arrest to sentence Survey--charge to first listing Young Offenders arrest to sentence 1997 155 n/a 141 1998 123 n/a 125 1999 109 30 108 2000 96 32 93 2001 79 28 76 2002 63 25 68 2003 57 24 66 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. We cannot provide "arrest to court" data for Persistent Young Offenders--only arrest to sentence. 2. We cannot provide "arrest to court" for all offenders. 3. The figures for "charge to first listing" come from the Time Interval Surveys. Comparable data for 1997 and 1998 are not available. 4. We cannot provide data for the Wrekin, but we can provide data for West Mercia in which this constituency is situated.

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