1-3 of 3 results for subject:Preston
Librarians' tools
- Search time
- 0.187 seconds
- Solr query time
- 0.002 seconds
- Search query
- subject:Preston
- We searched for
- subject_t:Preston OR subject_ses:12252
Answering member
X
Alan Campbell
Type
House
Session
Year
Department
Member
Primary member
Answering member
More
Campbell, Alan (3)
Legislative stage
Legislation
Subject
Publisher
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures for the prevention of racial harassment his Department has introduced since 1997; and how many times these powers have been used in Preston.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures for the prevention of racial harassment his Department has introduced since 1997; and how many times these powers have been used in Preston.
Asked by
Mark Hendrick
(Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answered by
Alan Campbell
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
12 January 2010
For answer on
14 January 2010
Answered on
1 February 2010
Since 1997, the Government have introduced the following pieces of legislation to tackle racial harassment: the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (as amended by the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001); the Race Relations Act 2000, and the Criminal Justice Act 2003. The figures on the use of the powers relevant to this group of legislation are available at police force area level only. Therefore, the data in the following table provides information on Lancashire police force area and are reflective of the steps that both central and local government are taking to address significant underreporting of hate crime, including racist hate crime.
| Number of defendants proceeded against at the magistrates courts for selected offences in the Lancashire police force area, 1998 to 2007¹, ² | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Statute | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| Racially aggravated wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm (inflicting bodily injury with or without weapon) | Offences against the Person Act 1861 s.20 as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.2991)(a) and (2) | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Racially aggravated actual bodily harm (assaults occasioning ABH) | Offences against the Person Act 1861 s.47 as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.29(1)(b) and (2) | — | 4 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 20 |
| Racially Aggravated Common Assault | Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.29(1)(c) and (3) | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 20 | 27 | 43 | 36 | 35 | 68 |
| Racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress | Public Order Act 1986 s.4A as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.31(1)(b) and (4) | — | 6 | 13 | 16 | 22 | 20 | 25 | 29 | 74 | 69 |
| Racially Aggravated Offence of Harassment | Protection from Harassment Act 1997 s.2 as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.32(1)(a) and (3) | — | — | 3 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 4 |
| Racially Aggravated putting people in fear of violence | Protection from Harassment Act 1997 s.4 as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.32(1)(b) and (4) | — | — | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Racially or religiously aggravated malicious wounding or GBH | Offences Against the Person Act 1861 s.20 as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.29(1)(a) and (2) | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 8 |
| Racially or religiously aggravated ABH | Offences Against the Person Act 1861 s.47 as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.29(1)(b) and (2) | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Racially or religiously aggravated common assault | Common Law and Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.29(1)(c) and (3) | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 |
| Racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress | Public Order Act 1986 s.4A as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.31(1)(b) and (4) | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 10 |
| Racially or religiously aggravated offence of harassment | Protection from Harassment Act 1997 s.2 as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.32(1) | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 |
| Racially or religiously aggravated putting people in fear of violence | Protection from Harassment Act 1997 s.4 as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.32(1) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Racially aggravated other criminal damage | Criminal Damage Act 1971 s.1(1) as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.30(1) and (2) | 1 | 7 | 6 | 25 | 24 | 31 | 21 | 22 | 34 | 25 |
| Racially or religiously aggravated other criminal damage | Criminal Damage Act 1971 s.1(1) as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.30(1) and (2) | — | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Racially aggravated fear or provocation of violence | Public Order Act 1986 s.4 as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.31(1 )(a) and (4) | — | 11 | 22 | 39 | 62 | 50 | 50 | 46 | 42 | 45 |
| Racially or religiously aggravated fear or provocation of violence | Public Order Act 1986 s.4 as amended by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.31(1)(a) and (4) | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 2 | 10 | 5 |
| Racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress | Public Order Act 1986 s.5A as added by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.31 (1)(c) and 5 | 4 | 24 | 51 | 80 | 63 | 97 | 100 | 130 | 199 | 175 |
| Racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress | Public Order Act 1986 s.4A as added by Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.31 (1)(c) and (5) | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 19 |
| Total | 6 | 55 | 121 | 190 | 211 | 277 | 281 | 329 | 466 | 467 | |
| ¹ The figures given in the table on court proceedings 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. | |||||||||||
| Source: | |||||||||||
| Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice. |
Subjects
Racial harassment; Preston
Date
1 February 2010
Reference
505 c92-6W; 310998
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department spent on programmes to tackle the misuse of drugs in Preston in (a) 1997-98 and (b) 2008-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department spent on programmes to tackle the misuse of drugs in Preston in (a) 1997-98 and (b) 2008-09.
Asked by
Mark Hendrick
(Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answered by
Alan Campbell
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
12 January 2010
For answer on
14 January 2010
Answered on
20 January 2010
The Home Office made a grant of £35,000 to Preston in 2008-09 towards a Positive Futures project. The Positive Futures programme was launched in 2001. It aims to prevent young people from becoming involved in substance misuse, crime and antisocial behaviour by engaging them into sport and arts based activities, and to support them access education, training, employment and volunteering opportunities.Other sources of central funding are available to Preston through Lancashire county council for allocation across the partnership's areas as they see fit in order to deliver local, regional and national strategies. For example, the Home Office made a contribution of £1,136,278 to Lancashire county council towards the delivery of the Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) in 2008-09. DIP was introduced in 2003 to direct offenders into an assessment for their drug use, and as a route into effective treatment. This funding was allocated by the Lancashire Drug Action Team to commission services required across Lancashire areas, including Preston.Funding data for 1997-98 are not readily available.
Subjects
Drugs; Preston
Date
20 January 2010
Reference
504 c339W; 310999
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the percentage change in numbers of (a) overall recorded crimes, (b) recorded violent crimes, (c) burglaries and (d) vehicle thefts in Preston has been since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the percentage change in numbers of (a) overall recorded crimes, (b) recorded violent crimes, (c) burglaries and (d) vehicle thefts in Preston has been since 1997.
Asked by
Mark Hendrick
(Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answered by
Alan Campbell
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
12 January 2010
For answer on
14 January 2010
Answered on
19 January 2010
Information is not available in the form requested. Since 1997, there have been two major changes to the way crime is recorded. The effect of extending the coverage and changing the counting rules in 1998 was to artificially increase total recorded crime nationally by 14 per cent. It is estimated that the effect of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) in April 2002 caused a further artificial increase of 10 per cent. in total recorded crime in its first year. For these reasons data between 1997 and 2008-09 are not directly comparable.The latest comparable data are for offences recorded in Preston between 2002-03 and 2008-09 and are given in the following table.
| Percentage change in selected offences recorded by the police in Preston between 2002-03 and 2008-09 | |
|---|---|
| Percentage change | |
| Total recorded crime | -20 |
| Violence against the person | +27 |
| Burglary | -45 |
| Theft of a vehicle | -47 |
| Theft from a vehicle | -54 |
Subjects
Crime; Preston
Date
19 January 2010
Reference
504 c258-9W; 310997
House
House of Commons