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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) most, (b) less and (c) summary violent offences were recorded in each police force area in each year since 2002-03; and how many people were convicted of violent offences of each type in each of those years.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

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Answered

Tabled on

24 February 2010

For answer on

1 March 2010

Answered on

8 April 2010

[holding answer 1 March 2010]: Information is not available in the requested format. The available information relates to offences of violence against the person with and without injury and is given in Tables 1 and 2. Summary offences of assault without injury are included within the violence against the person without injury grouping. Summary offences without injury are "assault without injury on a constable", "assault without injury", and "racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury". Separate figures for these offences are given in Table 3.These police recorded crime data relate to the number of offences recorded in each financial year.In April 2002, the National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) was introduced. This brought in a more victim-focused reporting system, where victim accounts had to be accepted unless there was credible evidence to the contrary. It took some forces several years to adjust to the new recording practice, meaning that comparisons from 2002-03 to 2008-09 should be treated with caution.Home Office statisticians advise that the British Crime Survey (BCS) is the best guide to long-term trends for the crime types it covers because it has a consistent methodology and is unaffected by levels of reporting or police recording. However, the BCS is not designed to provide robust estimates of different crimes at police force area.Annual BCS figures are estimates based on data from the interviews carried out in the previous 12 months. Estimates for the violent crimes covered by the survey show a 22 per cent. fall in England and Wales from 2002-03 to 2008-09. Over the same period, police recorded crime figures show a 7 per cent. increase in violence against the person offences.Conviction data have been provided by the Ministry of Justice and relate to the number of offenders. These data are published on a calendar year basis and are counts of persons classified by their principal offence.As the data come from different sources and are reported on different periods, the two datasets are not comparable.Information on the offenders dealt with by the Criminal Justice System does not necessarily reflect wider trends for characteristics of perpetrators of crimes, where often an offender will not be apprehended.The number of persons found guilty at all courts in England and Wales for offences of violence against the person, by type and police force area, from 2002 to 2008 (latest available), can be viewed in the Tables 4, 5, and 6.Court proceedings data for 2009 are planned for publication in autumn 2010.

Table 1: Recorded offences of violence against the person with injury, 2002-03 to 2008-09
Police force	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Avon and Somerset	8,586	12,371	14,097	13,699	13,294	13,061	11,492
Bedfordshire	4,431	5,026	5,618	5,614	5,113	4,446	4,085
British Transport Police	2,231	2,850	3,242	3,517	2,841	2,562	2,529
Cambridgeshire	4,038	6,144	6,195	5,201	4,848	4,523	4,692
Cheshire	4,127	4,516	5,455	11,169	9,125	7,676	6,925
Cleveland	2,702	3,879	6,711	7,354	6,115	5,468	4,922
Cumbria	3,046	3,728	4,994	4,670	4,167	3,836	3,270
Derbyshire	10,160	11,434	12,014	11,441	11,009	10,933	8,734
Devon and Cornwall	13,471	14,577	15,568	14,075	13,211	12,246	11,088
Dorset	2,713	4,304	5,194	5,872	5,146	4,692	5,010
Durham	2,344	2,343	2,675	5,557	5,191	4,775	3,679
Dyfed-Powys	3,178	4,209	4,143	3,842	3,592	2,880	2,672
Essex	12,539	13,977	13,569	13,254	11,953	10,861	9,628
Gloucestershire	2,841	4,288	5,359	5,251	4,575	3,734	3,471
Greater Manchester	30,712	33,196	29,710	27,988	27,580	23,858	22,424
Gwent	6,972	6,621	7,087	7,101	6,655	6,013	5,823
Hampshire	7,339	11,607	14,369	13,427	14,728	15,393	15,152
Hertfordshire	3,312	4,882	8,494	7,706	7,064	5,496	4,963
Humberside	9,257	12,704	12,975	13,230	12,870	9,089	8,727
Kent	8,048	9,899	12,870	14,801	14,360	12,721	11,961
Lancashire	8,499	14,950	15,666	15,026	13,953	13,228	12,105
Leicestershire	5,682	7,106	9,597	9,390	9,135	8,617	7,837
Lincolnshire	4,889	5,709	5,804	5,295	4,566	3,958	3,856
London, City of	298	286	298	263	273	351	343
Merseyside	12,719	16,783	18,573	17,028	13,098	9,798	8,214
Metropolitan Police	44,387	45,151	71,958	86,020	79,698	73,302	71,462
Norfolk	4,309	5,565	5,838	5,871	5,229	4,577	3,773
Northamptonshire	5,127	7,010	6,571	6,694	5,752	5,418	4,857
Northumbria	7,910	15,169	14,067	12,773	13,358	11,033	10,488
North Wales	6,377	6,498	6,948	6,505	5,630	4,204	4,315
North Yorkshire	2,012	3,245	6,546	6,352	5,512	4,448	4,324
Nottinghamshire	10,659	12,076	12,755	14,538	13,049	10,985	11,814
South Wales	10,657	11,123	10,568	11,835	10,387	10,442	10,104
South Yorkshire	5,024	5,605	7,180	16,212	16,730	14,699	12,643
Staffordshire	9,805	12,449	13,290	12,597	12,224	9,731	9,733
Suffolk	3,677	4,596	5,075	5,102	4,631	3,902	4,008
Surrey	4,636	4,985	5,288	5,913	5,317	5,128	4,586
Sussex	6,097	12,008	14,439	13,371	12,140	9,862	8,355
Thames Valley	10,771	12,699	15,561	15,619	14,765	14,180	14,547
Warwickshire	2,232	4,111	3,753	3,936	3,809	3,746	3,044
West Mercia	10,142	11,079	10,483	9,601	9,165	8,538	7,722
West Midlands	32,443	35,760	34,842	36,465	36,579	33,216	29,575
West Yorkshire	18,366	27,432	25,997	27,813	22,991	20,214	18,216
Wiltshire	3,359	3,872	3,830	4,617	5,166	4,478	3,797

England and Wales	372,124	457,822	515,266	543,605	506,594	452,318	420,965

Table 2: Recorded offences of violence against the person without injury, 2002-03 to 2008-09
Police force	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Avon and Somerset	12,153	14,159	17,365	16,797	17,587	14,086	15,101
Bedfordshire	3,667	3,781	4,519	4,192	4,026	3,153	3,166
British Transport Police	7,945	8,632	9,872	10,864	13,291	12,963	12,971
Cambridgeshire	8,536	7,519	7,163	4,957	5,573	5,773	5,224
Cheshire	6,575	9,558	10,153	7,348	8,144	7,428	7,244
Cleveland	3,580	5,320	4,941	6,958	7,813	7,447	5,740
Cumbria	2,679	3,146	4,201	4,536	4,020	4,219	3,843
Derbyshire	5,253	4,963	4,570	4,519	5,056	5,796	5,625
Devon and Cornwall	10,249	11,392	12,767	11,230	11,551	10,893	9,936
Dorset	5,436	4,843	5,556	6,058	6,659	6,425	5,430
Durham	5,367	4,222	4,352	4,342	4,826	3,850	3,756
Dyfed-Powys	3,039	3,700	4,172	3,869	4,102	3,076	2,998
Essex	9,551	12,033	11,792	10,626	10,870	12,284	12,246
Gloucestershire	4,893	4,015	4,190	5,245	6,256	5,572	5,083
Greater Manchester	17,892	20,776	23,498	24,960	29,471	26,430	23,605
Gwent	8,047	6,310	5,805	4,402	5,062	4,185	3,583
Hampshire	14,832	23,541	23,804	25,259	25,841	23,635	20,460
Hertfordshire	4,356	7,474	8,351	8,500	9,826	7,852	7,140
Humberside	7,201	12,613	11,215	9,285	10,999	10,269	9,334
Kent	10,310	10,613	9,987	12,011	13,194	12,470	12,141
Lancashire	7,285	11,725	15,918	13,815	12,838	11,784	11,097
Leicestershire	9,822	10,487	11,973	11,610	11,270	10,162	10,682
Lincolnshire	4,349	4,439	5,052	5,431	5,691	5,444	5,058
London, City of	630	563	693	679	694	583	510
Merseyside	9,975	9,663	15,605	17,769	12,896	10,930	10,801
Metropolitan Police	134,395	141,036	129,965	111,242	102,656	99,428	102,949
Norfolk	6,298	6,021	7,082	6,633	6,353	5,349	4,901
Northamptonshire	4,681	4,060	4,590	3,798	4,361	5,194	4,618
Northumbria	17,261	9,628	8,791	9,222	10,891	8,512	8,659
North Wales	5,095	4,481	5,073	5,825	8,793	6,904	6,840
North Yorkshire	6,096	6,365	5,499	5,121	4,575	5,024	3,812
Nottinghamshire	5,300	6,555	7,002	6,778	8,889	8,851	7,796
South Wales	9,769	10,072	9,539	9,213	9,446	11,671	11,074
South Yorkshire	7,264	7,894	14,033	12,963	11,225	9,754	7,985
Staffordshire	10,385	10,325	10,291	11,630	12,504	10,069	10,046
Suffolk	4,272	4,933	5,272	4,915	5,559	5,511	5,422
Surrey	3,879	4,668	5,378	5,325	8,206	8,957	8,262
Sussex	12,026	7,492	12,654	14,496	16,484	15,220	11,911
Thames Valley	14,555	15,889	18,662	20,368	26,657	28,101	26,269
Warwickshire	3,455	2,755	2,738	2,633	3,577	3,780	2,931
West Mercia	9,706	10,788	7,696	6,098	6,845	7,161	7,077
West Midlands	19,351	20,095	20,264	20,521	21,211	20,119	18,647
West Yorkshire	12,484	18,432	18,612	21,064	20,275	18,803	16,370
Wiltshire	3,060	2,430	2,174	2,871	3,510	3,664	4,134

England and Wales	472,954	509,406	532,829	515,978	539,573	508,781	482,477

Table 3: Recorded summary offences of assault without injury, 2002-03 to 2008-09¹,²
Police force	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Avon and Somerset	6,258	6,458	8,269	7,812	8,536	7,169	7,407
Bedfordshire	2,021	1,781	1,845	1,787	1,866	1,321	1,512
British Transport Police	3,668	3,934	4,315	4,316	4,631	3,996	3,936
Cambridgeshire	4,847	3,607	3,590	2,252	2,828	3,224	2,907
Cheshire	4,776	7,374	7,147	3,381	4,195	4,463	4,058
Cleveland	2,440	3,969	2,558	3,282	3,416	3,784	3,283
Cumbria	1,448	1,528	1,900	1,946	1,830	2,114	1,646
Derbyshire	2,515	1,962	1,403	1,398	1,721	2,043	2,753
Devon and Cornwall	6,130	7,213	7,880	5,788	5,586	5,325	5,291
Dorset	3,977	3,050	2,491	2,566	2,892	3,193	2,864
Durham	3,560	2,490	2,471	1,750	1,733	1,304	1,533
Dyfed-Powys	942	1,557	1,896	1,439	1,660	1,337	1,189
Essex	4,057	4,628	3,765	3,393	3,779	5,281	5,720
Gloucestershire	3,333	2,512	2,197	2,236	2,927	2,804	2,933
Greater Manchester	7,952	8,261	7,237	7,075	9,071	9,352	9,668
Gwent	2,308	1,774	1,395	892	837	780	508
Hampshire	9,768	13,016	10,883	11,589	11,759	11,334	10,891
Hertfordshire	2,538	4,477	4,140	3,972	4,204	3,995	3,640
Humberside	3,436	4,161	4,909	3,989	4,580	3,577	3,643
Kent	6,998	6,984	5,928	6,849	7,805	7,738	7,251
Lancashire	3,748	6,512	7,794	6,467	6,110	6,241	6,348
Leicestershire	6,092	5,745	5,104	4,475	4,670	4,272	4,308
Lincolnshire	2,387	2,308	2,104	1,913	2,631	2,362	2,364
London, City of	259	201	199	199	191	222	192
Merseyside	6,115	4,186	5,814	5,567	4,948	4,179	3,671
Metropolitan Police	88,636	90,884	69,855	52,096	47,727	43,976	43,975
Norfolk	3,976	3,546	3,908	3,582	3,242	3,024	2,734
Northamptonshire	2,842	2,049	2,448	1,892	2,301	2,981	2,956
Northumbria	10,800	3,319	2,882	2,548	3,137	2,754	3,238
North Wales	3,186	2,495	2,461	2,592	4,102	3,145	2,790
North Yorkshire	3,989	3,832	2,117	2,185	1,942	1,878	1,906
Nottinghamshire	2,209	2,941	3,063	2,181	3,795	3,963	3,025
South Wales	3,223	3,183	2,841	2,992	3,069	4,016	4,239
South Yorkshire	4,511	5,073	9,466	4,872	3,763	3,083	2,452
Staffordshire	5,853	5,396	4,829	5,402	5,543	4,847	5,245
Suffolk	2,234	2,324	2,285	2,275	2,277	2,091	2,021
Surrey	2,077	2,586	2,627	2,249	3,112	3,612	3,842
Sussex	9,085	3,703	5,962	6,491	8,406	7,941	7,211
Thames Valley	8,728	8,516	7,529	7,128	11,354	12,022	11,496
Warwickshire	2,626	1,869	1,598	1,098	1,735	2,140	1,473
West Mercia	4,899	5,146	3,219	2,133	2,592	3,298	3,245
West Midlands	5,952	3,992	3,486	3,452	4,391	4,753	5,393
West Yorkshire	7,908	5,980	5,671	7,465	10,651	10,695	9,358
Wiltshire	1,792	1,057	701	751	1,256	1,851	2,503

England and Wales	276,099	267,579	244,182	209,717	228,801	223,480	218,618
¹ The numbers given in this table are also included in Table 2.
² Offence Classifications 104, 105A and 105B were used to produce the table.

Table 4: Number of defendants found guilty at all courts for violence against the person (more serious offences)¹, by police force area—England and Wales 2002 to 2008², ³, 4
Police force	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Avon and Somerset	77	87	86	88	87	75	68
Bedfordshire	39	32	42	33	31	47	42
Cambridgeshire	42	31	46	29	41	43	38
Cheshire	50	53	54	84	58	70	44
City of London	5	1	2	—	1	—	3
Cleveland	46	54	52	61	53	52	46
Cumbria	23	26	30	35	19	24	23
Derbyshire	40	37	58	55	32	37	32
Devon and Cornwall	67	58	69	92	63	64	59
Dorset	22	20	26	33	34	29	21
Durham	44	44	53	42	38	37	27
Essex	57	73	55	65	53	71	71
Gloucestershire	19	24	24	20	17	23	18
Greater Manchester	257	222	226	238	223	245	229
Hampshire	109	99	130	121	104	101	80
Hertfordshire	53	40	43	61	33	34	39
Humberside	47	74	77	69	71	86	67
Kent	60	67	74	79	72	78	100
Lancashire	109	116	130	123	91	122	124
Leicestershire	59	66	78	64	36	60	66
Lincolnshire	18	28	32	15	33	30	47
Merseyside	103	115	107	120	126	108	82
Metropolitan Police	515	529	612	589	578	604	652
Norfolk	35	31	30	39	40	29	40
North Yorkshire	29	26	32	50	32	54	34
Northamptonshire	43	26	39	35	40	49	37
Northumbria	113	121	109	117	115	136	129
Nottinghamshire	52	58	56	76	71	63	71
South Yorkshire	96	68	117	92	93	86	89
Staffordshire	55	46	65	56	64	46	58
Suffolk	39	29	34	30	26	13	35
Surrey	17	25	31	20	24	35	21
Sussex	72	65	73	67	70	70	93
Thames Valley	83	93	88	107	110	111	112
Warwickshire	23	18	21	29	23	29	24
West Mercia	49	58	53	59	49	63	43
West Midlands	230	222	247	228	238	221	206
West Yorkshire	131	163	192	180	131	171	214
Wiltshire	25	19	30	28	21	20	33
Dyfed-Powys	21	30	28	27	21	31	30
Gwent	64	45	59	52	28	36	28
North Wales	30	27	32	54	36	40	43
South Wales	133	129	112	127	116	110	106

England and Wales	3,201	3,195	3,554	3,589	3,242	3,453	3,424
¹ Includes: Murder, Attempted murder, Threat or conspiracy to murder, Manslaughter, Infanticide, Child destruction, Causing death by dangerous driving, Manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, Causing death by careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs, Causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable person, Causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving, Causing death by driving,—unlicensed, disqualified or uninsured drivers, Causing death by aggravated vehicle taking, Wounding or other act endangering life, Endangering railway passenger.
² The statistics 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 the principal offence 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.
³ 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.
4 Excludes convictions for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July and August 2008.
Source:
Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice

Table 5: Number of defendants found guilty at all courts for violence against the person (less serious offences)¹, by police force area—England and Wales 2002 to 2008², ³, 4
Police force	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Avon and Somerset	737	848	747	829	830	856	888
Bedfordshire	227	265	284	336	335	315	354
Cambridgeshire	360	344	362	484	417	430	471
Cheshire	631	562	487	704	825	849	713
City of London	60	54	43	43	33	23	37
Cleveland	400	416	464	508	667	641	649
Cumbria	437	443	428	508	473	434	461
Derbyshire	585	638	643	847	639	730	620
Devon and Cornwall	766	908	807	820	751	699	732
Dorset	289	295	307	415	372	349	313
Durham	567	522	498	616	660	675	612
Essex	561	629	772	767	755	842	799
Gloucestershire	299	314	287	347	329	241	341
Greater Manchester	2,345	2,522	2,751	2,608	2,838	2,821	2,520
Hampshire	1,124	1,167	1,202	1,192	1,240	1,214	1,286
Hertfordshire	486	467	517	622	546	485	443
Humberside	608	703	719	732	783	867	792
Kent	617	659	542	644	695	702	812
Lancashire	1,175	1,176	1,171	1,228	1,507	1,594	1,497
Leicestershire	739	715	724	825	730	714	641
Lincolnshire	292	335	388	351	369	380	378
Merseyside	1,211	1,237	1,331	1,301	1,409	1,396	1,313
Metropolitan Police	5,879	5,342	5,468	5,471	5,590	5,406	6,132
Norfolk	361	372	336	384	430	386	380
North Yorkshire	336	365	426	463	467	545	510
Northamptonshire	262	269	295	334	285	267	386
Northumbria	1,361	1,270	1,201	1,263	1,227	1,391	1,317
Nottinghamshire	687	688	694	761	784	791	712
South Yorkshire	927	951	946	1,060	1,090	1,131	1,224
Staffordshire	601	642	667	681	727	714	704
Suffolk	329	367	410	455	545	469	379
Surrey	206	229	263	253	302	311	316
Sussex	629	674	603	713	778	847	802
Thames Valley	682	698	713	938	1,038	998	977
Warwickshire	195	190	232	260	303	273	276
West Mercia	650	654	642	779	860	846	779
West Midlands	2,860	2,764	2,731	2,299	2,610	2,389	2,342
West Yorkshire	1,216	1,290	1,607	1,557	1,331	1,477	1,542
Wiltshire	271	335	296	371	439	376	392
Dyfed-Powys	332	386	320	335	329	335	228
Gwent	553	482	512	433	538	530	403
North Wales	406	440	477	550	641	612	574
South Wales	1,248	1,214	1,282	1,253	1,105	1,147	1,048

England and Wales	34,507	34,841	35,595	37,340	38,622	38,498	38,095
¹ Includes: Endangering life at sea, Other wounding etc., Cruelty to or neglect of children, Abandoning child aged under two years, Child abduction, procuring illegal abortion, Concealment of birth.
² The statistics 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 the principal offence 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.
³ 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.
4 Excludes convictions for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July and August 2008.
Source:
Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice

Table 6: Number of defendants found guilty at all courts for common assault, by police force area—England and Wales 2002 to 2008¹, ², ³
Police force	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Avon and Somerset	754	789	934	1,279	1,246	1,413	1,484
Bedfordshire	246	307	364	452	528	442	491
Cambridgeshire	334	347	396	563	699	736	762
Cheshire	508	544	575	831	1,182	1,396	1,244
City of London	28	18	21	23	44	47	60
Cleveland	234	350	426	444	515	634	657
Cumbria	359	407	474	573	593	687	775
Derbyshire	561	684	883	1,130	1,158	1,328	1,463
Devon and Cornwall	1,044	1,041	1,204	1,333	1,171	1,168	1,365
Dorset	363	340	406	518	605	756	670
Durham	341	318	337	434	457	665	551
Essex	840	894	1,068	1,419	1,624	1,724	1,656
Gloucestershire	287	307	349	498	520	462	614
Greater Manchester	998	1,183	1,825	2,135	2,637	2,830	2,653
Hampshire	1,322	1,480	1,982	1,863	1,966	2,248	2,216
Hertfordshire	376	461	621	856	901	861	860
Humberside	444	587	755	842	888	1,029	1,017
Kent	810	930	1,075	1,153	1,351	1,454	1,421
Lancashire	844	993	1,034	1,512	1,957	2,131	2,145
Leicestershire	527	630	734	1,098	1,156	1,407	1,275
Lincolnshire	480	570	567	585	619	570	571
Merseyside	671	946	1,153	1,287	1,464	1,520	1,456
Metropolitan Police	2,829	2,941	3,416	4,063	5,096	5,304	5,888
Norfolk	612	617	678	662	728	792	881
North Yorkshire	420	438	582	765	800	753	726
Northamptonshire	283	331	361	419	423	427	426
Northumbria	776	947	1,106	1,128	1,226	1,586	1,468
Nottinghamshire	910	906	917	1,098	1,143	1,043	1,033
South Yorkshire	580	724	929	1,049	1,184	1,343	1,286
Staffordshire	780	802	938	1,080	1,107	1,116	943
Suffolk	467	536	704	770	836	822	807
Surrey	293	415	492	601	559	603	591
Sussex	768	809	1,075	1,099	1,124	1,382	1,439
Thames Valley	796	841	984	1,524	1,696	1,664	1,639
Warwickshire	192	176	194	273	303	426	351
West Mercia	676	733	948	1,131	1,208	1,225	1,102
West Midlands	2,467	2,529	2,793	2,848	2,937	2,978	2,742
West Yorkshire	1,577	2,010	2,445	2,579	2,362	2,428	2,345
Wiltshire	519	623	616	620	615	531	547
Dyfed-Powys	258	317	350	358	459	443	393
Gwent	374	343	371	387	512	543	571
North Wales	476	501	566	643	736	791	842
South Wales	525	617	682	820	925	985	893

England and Wales	28,949	32,282	38,330	44,745	49,260	52,693	52,319
¹ The statistics 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 the principal offence 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.
³ Excludes convictions for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July and August 2008.
Source:
Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice

Date

8 April 2010

Reference

508 c1524-36W; 319820

House

House of Commons

Crime: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken into (i) child victims of crime and (ii) child criminals in each of the last five years.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

24 February 2010

For answer on

26 February 2010

Answered on

7 April 2010

For purposes of this reply we have considered any Home Office research looking specifically or primarily at children (those aged under 18) as perpetrators or victims of crime, where the research was undertaken in 2005 or later. A number of Home Office research projects may include some information on young people as victims or offenders as part of a more general research study: these are not covered in this reply.(i) Child victims of crimeSince 2005 the Home Office has commissioned or undertaken the following research in respect of child victims:BMRB (British Market Research Bureau) were commissioned to extend the British Crime Survey (BCS) to include a representative sample of children aged 10 to 15 as part of the BCS 2010-11 fieldwork contract. The BCS was extended from January 2009 with the objective of providing estimates of victimisation among those aged 10 to 15 and better understanding children's experiences of victimisation and key crime related issues in England and Wales.The Home Office reported in 2009 on the key trends in monitoring Phase 1 of the Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP) aimed at reducing the carrying of knives and serious stabbings among teenagers (13 to 19-year-olds) in 10 police force areas. The report is available at:"http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/horr18c.pdf"The Home Office commissioned a process evaluation in March 2009 to look at the implementation of the Child Sex Offender Review public disclosure. The final report was published in March 2010."http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/horr32c.pdf"(ii) Child criminalsSince 2005 the Home Office has commissioned or undertaken the following research in respect of child offenders:The Home Office was responsible for carrying out the Offending Crime and Justice Survey (OCJS) since 2003. The survey has completed four annual sweeps (2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006). The main aim of the survey is to gather information on young people's attitudes towards and experiences of offending in England and Wales (particularly those aged from 10 to 25). The OCJS also collects information about young people's victimisation experiences. Results from the 2005 and 2006 OCJS surveys are available at:"http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/hosb1706.pdf"and"http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0908.pdf"In November 2009 longitudinal analysis of those who took part in all four years of the OCJS was published and is available at:"http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/horr19c.pdf"The Home Office commissioned the Juvenile Cohort Study in 2007. It was designed to provide evidence about which interventions are associated with reductions in re-offending for young offenders with different characteristics. Since the machinery of government changes (May 2007), this work is now owned and being taken forward by the Ministry of Justice.The Home Office commissioned an evaluation of the Drug Intervention Programme pilots for children and young people. The report was published in 2007."http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/rdsolr0707.pdf"In 2009 the Home Office commissioned a process evaluation of the implementation of the Youth Crime Action Plan. This study is ongoing.

Date

7 April 2010

Reference

508 c1383-4W; 319777

House

House of Commons

Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) murders and (b) sexual offences recorded in (i) each police force area and (ii) England and Wales, in each year since 1998 remain unsolved.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 February 2010

For answer on

22 February 2010

Answered on

7 April 2010

The available information is given in the form of tables showing undetected crime in each financial year from 1998-99 to 2008-09. Tables 1 and 2 show the numbers for undetected homicides; tables 3 and 4 those for undetected sexual offences. As offences detected in the current year may initially have been recorded in an earlier year it is not possible to determine the numbers of undetected crime in a particular year.It should be noted that non-sanction detections, which contribute to the overall detection rates, have fallen in recent years. This reflects a significant shift by many police forces away from recording detections where no further action is taken. This will have had an impact on the number of crimes which remain undetected.

Table 1: Undetected homicides by police force area—1998/99 to 2001/02
	Undetected
	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02
Avon and Somerset	2	2	-3	6
Bedfordshire	-1	-2	3	0
Cambridgeshire	-2	0	-1	4
Cheshire	1	0	0	1
Cleveland	0	1	-2	1
Cumbria	0	1	2	1
Derbyshire	0	2	1	-2
Devon and Cornwall	1	0	2	-1
Dorset	2	-3	0	5
Durham	0	-2	-1	0
Dyfed-Powys	0	1	-1	0
Essex	4	3	2	4
Gloucestershire	2	1	1	3
Greater Manchester	-8	6	5	6
Gwent	0	0	1	-1
Hampshire	-1	0	3	3
Hertfordshire	0	0	2	-1
Humberside	4	0	4	5
Kent	-1	3	2	4
Lancashire	0	1	1	-1
Leicestershire	-2	0	2	0
Lincolnshire	2	1	2	-1
London, City of	0	0	0	0
Merseyside	0	-2	7	13
Metropolitan Police	20	45	19	55
Norfolk	2	-2	2	3
Northamptonshire	1	0	0	1
Northumbria	-1	0	3	1
North Wales	0	0	0	0
North Yorkshire	0	1	0	0
Nottinghamshire	3	0	4	1
South Wales	1	4	0	-6
South Yorkshire	1	1	-1	6
Staffordshire	4	2	3	-3
Suffolk	0	1	-3	0
Surrey	1	1	7	-3
Sussex	4	-1	5	5
Thames Valley	3	4	4	-1
Warwickshire	0	-1	0	0
West Mercia	-2	1	1	0
West Midlands	0	3	8	8
West Yorkshire	-1	0	-1	8
Wiltshire	0	1	1	-1

England and Wales	39	73	84	123
Note:
Offences detected in any given year may have been previously recorded in an earlier year. When offences detected in the year exceed the number recorded a negative value is shown.

Table 2: Undetected homicides by police force area—2002-03 to 2008-09
	Undetected
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Avon and Somerset	5	1	4	1	2	1	1
Bedfordshire	-1	0	-1	3	-4	-2	1
British Transport Police	-1	43	-3	2	0	1	2
Cambridgeshire	-2	1	1	2	0	1	2
Cheshire	0	2	1	2	-2	-2	2
Cleveland	2	-1	1	-3	1	0	1
Cumbria	0	1	2	0	0	0	0
Derbyshire	2	0	-3	0	2	0	1
Devon and Cornwall	4	0	0	1	6	5	-1
Dorset	0	0	2	-1	3	-1	0
Durham	-2	1	0	0	2	1	-1
Dyfed-Powys	1	0	1	-1	0	1	-1
Essex	6	3	0	9	-3	2	-1
Gloucestershire	2	1	2	1	0	2	-1
Greater Manchester	7	2	15	0	7	6	8
Gwent	0	0	1	0	0	1	1
Hampshire	9	3	4	0	5	2	0
Hertfordshire	1	4	-1	4	-2	1	-1
Humberside	1	5	-32	1	0	1	0
Kent	-1	-1	2	1	1	3	0
Lancashire	4	19	-20	-1	0	0	3
Leicestershire	2	2	2	1	4	-2	1
Lincolnshire	-3	2	0	0	1	6	4
London, City of	0	0	0	0	1	-1	0
Merseyside	11	9	12	-2	2	3	2
Metropolitan Police	37	6	16	16	27	18	14
Norfolk	2	0	-1	4	-2	1	2
Northamptonshire	1	0	1	0	2	0	1
Northumbria	-1	2	-1	2	0	3	-2
North Wales	7	-5	1	1	0	1	-3
North Yorkshire	-2	2	-3	0	1	-1	0
Nottinghamshire	4	-1	1	-3	3	-3	2
South Wales	-4	3	-2	5	2	-1	1
South Yorkshire	1	0	0	0	3	2	0
Staffordshire	5	0	-2	1	2	1	0
Suffolk	2	0	1	4	2	1	0
Surrey	6	2	3	1	-1	1	-1
Sussex	5	2	5	0	0	4	-1
Thames Valley	7	5	-3	7	1	2	-4
Warwickshire	1	1	-1	4	0	-1	-1
West Mercia	0	3	2	-2	1	3	4
West Midlands	15	0	-4	8	-3	6	5
West Yorkshire	-3	19	2	3	4	2	5
Wiltshire	0	1	1	0	1	1	-1

England and Wales	130	137	6	71	69	69	44
Note:
Offences detected in any given year may have been previously recorded in an earlier year. When offences detected in the year exceed the number recorded a negative value is shown.

Table 3: Undetected sexual offences by police force area—1998-99 to 2001-02
	Undetected
	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02
Avon and Somerset	394	441	673	915
Bedfordshire	260	279	250	269
Cambridgeshire	241	232	278	378
Cheshire	106	76	90	113
Cleveland	104	93	95	87
Cumbria	35	37	30	49
Derbyshire	299	405	482	430
Devon and Cornwall	236	162	229	484
Dorset	213	225	253	316
Durham	82	49	58	181
Dyfed-Powys	28	23	21	28
Essex	695	620	711	721
Gloucestershire	172	176	189	165
Greater Manchester	1,242	1,354	1,340	1,599
Gwent	132	97	55	56
Hampshire	189	663	794	822
Hertfordshire	170	181	289	207
Humberside	501	569	516	651
Kent	499	486	674	702
Lancashire	455	385	531	691
Leicestershire	414	471	437	526
Lincolnshire	129	116	123	225
London, City of	20	16	9	16
Merseyside	335	423	467	657
Metropolitan Police	6,447	7,911	7,566	8,057
Norfolk	168	196	216	281
Northamptonshire	153	97	81	165
Northumbria	531	607	553	649
North Wales	75	72	169	262
North Yorkshire	65	118	125	145
Nottinghamshire	603	675	740	875
South Wales	143	142	145	154
South Yorkshire	223	214	229	253
Staffordshire	372	735	803	815
Suffolk	166	216	251	319
Surrey	80	376	511	446
Sussex	564	697	818	783
Thames Valley	680	824	862	857
Warwickshire	76	108	118	115
West Mercia	206	256	248	469
West Midlands	915	1099	1331	1518
West Yorkshire	690	596	606	751
Wiltshire	114	165	256	220

England and Wales	19,222	22,683	24,186	27,422
Note:
The data in this table are prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years.

Table 4: Undetected sexual offences by police force area—2002/03 to 2008/09
	Undetected
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Avon and Somerset	1,306	1,386	1,531	1,113	1,292	1,115	1,095
Bedfordshire	362	437	392	493	350	280	348
British Transport Police	656	795	876	671	700	534	547
Cambridgeshire	540	624	560	572	544	561	523
Cheshire	386	533	585	649	589	484	433
Cleveland	221	409	444	434	397	330	315
Cumbria	89	163	200	179	169	211	192
Derbyshire	716	700	758	754	752	745	702
Devon and Cornwall	813	1,047	1,095	1,085	1,040	1,033	992
Dorset	448	542	500	560	472	579	543
Durham	237	129	170	453	265	285	260
Dyfed-Powys	31	261	289	256	250	208	184
Essex	1,023	1,136	884	973	777	815	846
Gloucestershire	338	322	364	465	470	426	377
Greater Manchester	1,844	2,330	2,430	2,184	2,052	2,048	1,963
Gwent	153	130	248	294	335	430	375
Hampshire	1,078	1,606	1,846	1,951	1,975	1,699	1,634
Hertfordshire	401	435	563	565	612	523	438
Humberside	857	1,136	1,072	943	928	676	665
Kent	857	1,046	1,308	1,334	1260	1,140	935
Lancashire	579	1,014	983	874	830	817	684
Leicestershire	745	768	1,006	948	915	931	856
Lincolnshire	482	501	504	441	455	424	426
London, City of	20	24	34	30	32	37	17
Merseyside	834	946	873	912	666	620	497
Metropolitan Police	8,343	7,800	7,193	6,725	6,717	6,288	5,976
Norfolk	503	533	588	573	483	447	359
Northamptonshire	362	300	345	395	348	449	409
Northumbria	943	990	1,018	825	735	657	582
North Wales	465	404	411	388	395	408	402
North Yorkshire	248	309	304	335	332	372	348
Nottinghamshire	731	805	731	759	778	807	870
South Wales	377	429	528	707	610	622	607
South Yorkshire	524	540	890	1,043	878	782	563
Staffordshire	757	766	836	865	794	701	782
Suffolk	363	490	400	407	435	473	489
Surrey	429	468	549	492	397	439	618
Sussex	889	939	1,331	1,119	1,128	960	1,034
Thames Valley	1,398	1,500	1,517	1,456	1,680	1,580	1,617
Warwickshire	188	292	268	242	300	265	269
West Mercia	601	672	706	576	609	740	720
West Midlands	1,849	2,137	2,434	2,325	2,329	2,140	1,786
West Yorkshire	1,280	1,832	1,652	1,822	1,662	1,589	1,532
Wiltshire	455	404	345	351	419	404	343

England and Wales	35,721	40,030	41,561	40,538	39,156	37,074	35,153
Note:
The data in this table takes account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years.

Date

7 April 2010

Reference

508 c1385-90W; 317568

House

House of Commons

Drugs: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Ion Track drug detection devices are possessed by each police force in England and Wales.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 April 2010

Reference

508 c1392W; 321257

House

House of Commons

Illegal Immigrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal immigrants have been found (a) in total and (b) at each of the main ports of entry to the United Kingdom in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 February 2010

For answer on

22 February 2010

Answered on

7 April 2010

It is Government policy to publish border force management information at a regional level, as location specific information could provide value to those seeking to circumvent our controls.The following table provides the number of illegal entrants detected by border force officers in the south and north regions between 2003 and 2009. These figures do not include the number of illegal immigrant's encountered in-country, and do not include those encountered at the juxtaposed borders in France and Belgium.

Region
	South	North	Total
2009	303	23	326
2008	455	45	500
2007	487	47	534
2006	393	28	421
2005	312	7	319
2004	241	—	241
2003	70	—	70

Date

7 April 2010

Reference

508 c1392W; 317764

House

House of Commons

Identity Cards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which Ministers in his Department have (a) been issued with (i) an identity card and (ii) a biometric passport and (b) their details on the National Identity Register.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1268W; 320674

House

House of Commons

Police: Bureaucracy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of police officer time was spent on front-line policing in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

24 February 2010

For answer on

26 February 2010

Answered on

6 April 2010

For the period 2003-04 to 2007-08, the front-line policing measure assesses time spent by police officers on core policing duties such as patrol and responding to 999 calls. They also include activities of CID and specialist officers, who, while not always visible to the public, are nonetheless carrying out core policing duties.The estimates by year are as follows: 2003-04, 63.6 per cent.; 2004-05, 62.3 per cent.; 2005-06, 63.6 per cent.; 2006-07, 64.2 per cent.; 2007-08, 64.9 per cent. Data for Staffordshire are not available for 2007-08 and these figures therefore exclude Staffordshire.The Policing Green Paper published in July 2008 introduced a robust programme to reduce bureaucracy and free-up officer time. This is enabling frontline staff to focus on dealing with the public's priorities, as measured against the confidence target—now the only top-down target on forces. As recommended by Sir David Normington in his review of data burdens placed by the Government on the police service, the collection of data about time spent by officers on police activities ceased after 2007-08.On 18 March 2010 HM Inspectorate of Constabulary published Value for Money Profiles for the 43 forces in England and Wales. Explanatory material accompanying the profiles contains an overall analysis of the police workforce as at 31 March 2009 which shows the proportion by function as:Aiding the public 47 per cent."Working in the community 36 per cent.""Policing roads 4 per cent.""Taking 999 calls and tasking (control room) 7 per cent."Dealing with criminals 31 per cent."Investigating crime (for example CID) 13 per cent.""Specialist functions (such as air support, firearms, dogs) 4 per cent.""Gathering intelligence 4 per cent.""Processing forensic evidence 2 per cent.""Preparing cases for court (criminal justice) 5 per cent.""Holding people in custody 3 per cent."Helping to support 22 per cent."Operational Support (including planning, estates, vehicles) 8 per cent.""Business Support (including HR, finance, IT) 11 per cent.""Training 2 per cent.""Other (such as catering and stores/supplies) 1 per cent.""Note:""These figures relate to the breakdown of all police personnel by function. They therefore include police staff as well as officers."

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1280-1W; 319521

House

House of Commons

Police: Bureaucracy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of police officer time was spent on each type of activity in (a) England and (b) Wales in the latest period for which figures are available.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

24 February 2010

For answer on

26 February 2010

Answered on

6 April 2010

Table A contains the percentages of police officer time spent on different activities for the financial year 2007-08 for England and Wales. To reduce paperwork burdens on police officers the collection of data about time spent by officers on police activities ceased after 2007-08 in response to the recommendations by Sir David Normington in his review of data burdens placed by the Government on the police service published in February 2009. Activities are grouped according to whether they are related to crime incidents, related to non-crime incidents (e.g. road traffic accidents), or not related to specific incidents. In this last case, these activities could be related to crime (e.g. prison interviews), or to general police duties and activities (e.g. training).The Policing Green Paper published in July 2008 introduced a robust programme to reduce bureaucracy and free-up officer time. This is enabling front line staff to focus on dealing with the public's priorities, as measured against the confidence target—now the only top-down target on forces.Table A indicates that, in 2007-08, the police in England spent 32.7 per cent. of their time on all crime incident-specific activities, 14.6 per cent. of their time on all non-crime incident specific activities, and 52.7 per cent. of their time on activities which were not related to specific incidents (although some of this will be crime-related).The comparative figures for Wales are 27.9 per cent., 20.7 per cent. and 51.5 per cent. respectively.Overall, in 2007-08, police in England and Wales spent 32.5 per cent. of their time on all crime incident-specific activities, 14.9 per cent. of their time on all non-crime incident specific activities, and 52.7 per cent. of their time on activities which were not related to specific incidents.For the specific offence groupings of robbery, criminal damage and sexual offending, the amount of time spent by the police in England and Wales in 2007-08 on incident-specific activities, as a proportion of total police time, was 2.2 per cent., 2.1 per cent. and 2.3 per cent. respectively. As a proportion of total crime incident-specific time, the figures were 6.7 per cent., 6.3 per cent. and 7.2 per cent. respectively. There is no category of 'gang-related crimes'.Table B contains police spend on different activities for the financial year 2007-08. As before, crime and non-crime incident-specific activities are differentiated. The categorisation of non-incident specific activities is different in Table B from Table A, however. Table B does not include costs of activities such as training, which are instead treated as overheads and included in the costs of all other activities. Further, Table B separates out some activities which are undertaken by particular staff or roles (e.g. 'intelligence analysis and research')—these are not included in Table A, as activity analysis covered only police officers working on foot, car or beat patrol, CID and traffic duties. Note that costs in Table B do not include 'sustaining overheads' such as running costs for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).Table B indicates that for the financial year 2007-08 the police in England and Wales spent 34.9 per cent. of its total budget (excluding sustaining overheads) on crime incident-specific activities. For the same specific offence groupings of robbery, criminal damage and sexual offending, the amount of budget spent by the police in England and Wales in 2007-08 on incident-specific activities, as a proportion of total police budget (excluding sustaining overheads), was 2.0 per cent., 2.2 per cent. and 2.6 per cent. respectively. As a proportion of total crime incident-specific budget spending, the figures were 5.7 per cent., 6.3 per cent. and 7.4 per cent. respectively. As before, there is no category of 'gang-related crimes'.By way of context, Table C provides proportions of crime incidents of different types alongside the proportion of time and budgetary spend on crime devoted to these incident types. Thus it can be seen that, in 2007-08, robbery accounted for 1.7 per cent. of crime incidents, and 6.7 per cent. and 5.7 per cent. of police time and budgetary spend respectively. Criminal damage accounted for 21 per cent. of crime incidents, and 6.3 per cent. of both police time and budget. Sexual offences accounted for 1.1 per cent. of crime incidents, and 7.2 per cent. and 7.4 per cent. of police time and budget respectively.

Table A: Police time by activity, England and Wales¹, 2007-08
Percentage of time
Activity	England	Wales	Total
Dealing with crime incidents
Violence against the person—S20 and more serious	3.4	2.3	3.3
Violence against the person—S47 and less serious	4.0	4.2	4.0
Sexual offences	2.3	2.1	2.3
Burglary dwelling	2.8	2.8	2.8
Burglary—commercial and other	1.2	1.5	1.2
Robbery	2.2	0.9	2.2
Theft of or from motor vehicle	1.8	1.7	1.8
Deception/fraud	1.2	0.9	1.2
Theft other	3.3	3.0	3.3
Drugs offences	2.8	2.7	2.8
Criminal damage	2.0	3.2	2.1
Other crime	5.6	2.6	5.5
	32.7	27.9	32.5

Dealing with non-crime incidents
RTA fatal/serious	1.0	0.9	1.0
RTA minor injury/damage	1.2	1.7	1.2
Traffic Other	2.4	3.8	2.5
Public disorder	1.9	2.8	2.0
Domestic dispute	2.1	2.4	2.2
Complaint/nuisance	0.9	2.5	1.0
Prostitution	0.1	0.0	0.1
False alarms	0.1	0.3	0.2
Missing person	1.1	1.7	1.2
Sudden/suspicious death	0.6	1.2	0.6
Other non crime	3.0	3.3	3.1
	14.6	20.7	14.9

Non-incident related
Visible patrol	13.7	15.2	13.8
Court duties/escort	0.4	0.3	0.4
Special operations/events	1.9	1.6	1.8
Investigate complaints	0.2	0.2	0.2
Deal with informants	0.4	0.0	0.3
Community involvement	1.3	1.3	1.3
Property inquiries	0.3	0.4	0.3
Non incident inquiries	1.5	1.6	1.5
Crime prevention activity	0.4	0.2	0.4
Prison interviews	0.1	0.0	0.1
Training	1.9	1.1	1.8
Briefings/meetings	6.6	7.2	6.6
Non-incident linked paperwork	7.4	7.0	7.4
Other non-incident related work	5.0	3.6	4.9
Staff development, appraisal, personnel-related	0.9	0.7	0.8
Monitoring cellblock PACE	0.3	0.2	0.3
Relief custody duties	0.4	0.8	0.4
Call handling/relief control room duties/inquiry desk	0.2	0.2	0.2
Checking paperwork (supervisory)	1.8	2.3	1.8
Budgetary/financial	0.1	0.1	0.1
ID parades	0.1	0.1	0.1
Other managerial/supervision	3.6	2.7	3.5
Refreshments	4.2	4.6	4.2
Waiting time	0.3	0.1	0.3
	52.7	51.5	52.7
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0
¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08.

Table B: Police spend by activity, England and Wales¹, 2007-08
Activity	Spend (£000)	Spend (percentage)
Dealing with crime incidents
Violence against the person—S20 and more serious	395,906	4.50
Violence against the person—S47 and less serious	346,819	4.00
Sexual offences	226,678	2.60
Burglary dwelling	259,262	3.00
Burglary—commercial and other	130,232	1.50
Robbery	170,458	2.00
Theft of or from motor vehicle	195,493	2.20
Deception/fraud	130,792	1.50
Theft other	273,557	3.10
Drugs offences	271,550	3.10
Criminal damage	187,576	2.20
Other crime	452,835	5.20
	3,041,159	35
Dealing with non-crime incidents
RTA fatal/serious	76,905	0.90
RTA minor injury/damage	105,163	1.20
Traffic Other	243,729	2.80
Public disorder	235,011	2.70
Domestic dispute	175,446	2.00
Complaint/nuisance	99,671	1.10
Prostitution	7,876	0.10
False alarms	13,058	0.10
Missing person	112,040	1.30
Sudden/suspicious death	81,260	0.90
Other non-crime	276,938	3.20
	1,427,097	16
Non-incident related
Visible patrol	1,207,838	13.80
Court duties/escort	35,643	0.40
Special operations/events	225,440	2.60
Deal with informants	39,985	0.50
Community involvement	169,188	1.90
Property inquiries	32,032	0.40
Non incident inquiries	135,039	1.50
Crime prevention activity	64,865	0.70
Prison interviews	7,332	0.10
Role Code—National, international policing, CT and Special Branch	474,839	5.40
Role Code—Crime partnerships	90,021	1.00
Role Code—Maintaining and developing partnerships	35,687	0.40
Role Code—Intelligence Research and Analysis	368,101	4.20
Role Code—Prisoner handling/custody	399,657	4.60
Role Code—Call handling/inquiry office	603,164	6.90
Role Code—Licensing	23,475	0.30
Role Code—Criminal justice	273,753	3.10
Role Code—Police protection	21,014	0.20
Role Code—Family liaison	19,830	0.20
Role Code—Warrants	16,581	0.20
ID parades	9,698	0.10
	4,253,184	49
Total	8,721,439	100.00
¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08.

Table C: Proportions of crime incidents, crime incident-related activity and crime incident-related spend by crime type, England and Wales¹, 2007-08
Percentage
Crime incident type	Crime incidents	Time on crime incidents	Budget on crime incidents
Violence against the person—S20 and more serious	0.5	10.3	12.9
Violence against the person—S47 and less serious	18.8	12.4	11.5
Sexual offences	1.1	7.2	7.4
Burglary dwelling	5.7	8.6	8.6
Burglary—commercial and other	6.2	3.7	4.3
Robbery	1.7	6.7	5.7
Theft of or from motor vehicle	13.3	5.4	6.3
Deception/fraud	3.2	3.7	4.3
Theft other	22.3	10.1	8.9
Drugs offences	4.6	8.6	8.9
Criminal damage	21.0	6.3	6.3
Other crime	1.4	17.0	14.9
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0
¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08.

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1277-80W; 319518

House

House of Commons

Departmental Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many attempts were made to gain unauthorised access to each (a) database and (b) ICT system run by his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1258W; 317830

House

House of Commons

Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to Manchester, Gorton constituency, the effects on that constituency of his Department's policies since 1997.

Asked by

Gerald Kaufman (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

9 March 2010

For answer on

11 March 2010

Answered on

6 April 2010

Manchester, Gorton comes within the Manchester Community Safety Partnership (CSP). Prior to one March 2010, CSPs were referred to as crime and disorder reduction partnerships (CDRP). The available statistical information therefore relates to the Manchester CSP.In terms of police recorded crime in the Manchester CSP, between 2002-03 and 2008-09, total recorded crime fell by 18 per cent. More specifically:"Violence against the person—down 2 per cent. (down 5 per cent. in last year)""Sexual offences—down 10 per cent. (down 10 per cent. in last year)""Robbery—down 43 per cent. (down 16 per cent. in last year)""Burglary—down 29 per cent. (up 5 per cent. in last year)""Offences against vehicles—down 35 per cent. (down 18 per cent. in last year)""Other theft offences—down 12 per cent. (up 2 per cent. in last year)""Criminal damage—down 20 per cent. (down 11 per cent. in last year)""Drug offences—up 151 per cent. (up 3 per cent. in last year) (there has been increased recording of drug offences which is mainly attributable to the increased use of police powers to issue cannabis warnings)."Data prior to 2002-03 are not directly comparable because of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. Additionally, no data at CSP level are available prior to 1998-99.Manchester CSP is covered by Metropolitan, North Manchester, South Manchester and Trafford basic command units, which had a total of 2,167 police officers as at 30 March 2009. The number of police officers has decreased by 74 since 2003. Comparisons with 1997 at BCU level are not available. There were 218 police community support officers as at 30 March 2009 while there were none in existence in 1997.The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 saw positive effects with the statutory duty to create a crime and disorder reduction partnership (CDRP). These are now referred to as community safety partnerships (CSPs). The Manchester CSP has brought new ways of working in a cross cutting way with the police, council and other key stakeholders and genuine partnership working to help tackle complex issues.Neighbourhood police teams are in place and the Manchester, Gorton constituency is served by a number of such teams from the Greater Manchester police's metropolitan division. Neighbourhood policing is a crucial partnership with the public and is helping to reduce crime and enhance community confidence in the police. The visible policing presence is augmented by information on neighbourhood policing in each area which is available on the internet. None of this was in place in 1997.All CSPs, including Manchester, are putting in place minimum standards to tackle antisocial behaviour (ASB). By tackling ASB and providing support for victims, these will help to reduce local perceptions of ASB and improve public confidence. This was not in place in 1997. In addition, before 1997 there were no bespoke powers to tackle antisocial behaviour whereas there are now a range of powers to deal with this issue. These include antisocial behaviour orders and designated public places orders (DPPO) from the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001. Manchester is in the top 50 national priority areas for alcohol-related harm. The effects of the Department's policies on crime, antisocial behaviour, policing, and night time economy management have been consistently positive and instrumental in supporting the city centre's development as a safer, more popular and vibrant place to visit.Detailed and comprehensive analysis is being used by Manchester, along with specific action plans to ensure reductions in serious violent crime. The Manchester Violent Gang Board has recently been commended for their approach to the issues within Manchester and have been given a Green Flag by the Audit Commission for their work in relation to guns and gangs. Gun crime is down significantly—Greater Manchester police's Xcalibre operations have had notable success in targeting the gang culture and securing convictions against gang leaders and members. Firearms discharges have reduced in Manchester over the last three years. This is helping to improve safety in Manchester, Gorton.Since 1997 a key element of Home Office policy in addressing domestic violence has been driven through the Home Office-led cross-Government National Domestic Violence Delivery Plan. This includes the Specialist Domestic Violence Court programme (Manchester gained accreditation in 2008). It also includes Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs), the Government's approach to identified high risk victims of domestic violence. Manchester is developing three MARACs covering all three police divisions. Victims of domestic violence are supported by independent domestic violence advisers (IDVAs)—trained specialists who provide a service to victims who are at high risk of harm which have been shown to decrease victimisation. Manchester now has 10 IDVAs.Since 1997 a key element of Home Office policy in addressing sexual violence has been driven through the delivery of the Home Office-led cross-Government Action Plan on Sexual Violence and Abuse which aims to increase access to health and support services for victims; improve the response of the criminal justice system for victims, and to prevent sexual violence in the first place.This has led to expanded services such as sexual assault referral centres (SARCs) and independent sexual violence advisers (ISVAs) to improve victim care. Home Office has supported the continued development of St Mary's SARC in Manchester and the development of an ISVA service at the centre.Manchester is a recipient of Youth Crime Action Plan funding and has rolled out a programme of initiatives designed to tackle youth crime. Manchester also receives funding from the Tackling Knives Action Programme and has engaged in a number of enforcement and educational activities to tackle and deter young people from involvement in all forms of serious youth violence. These include Safer Schools Partnerships.The drug treatment system in Manchester has developed by means of joint planning and commissioning of services over many years. The introduction of national drug strategy and the establishment of pooled treatment budget arrangements in 2001-02 have done much to formalise and enhance partnership working. This has resulted in the development of an integrated treatment system. Manchester has an effective drugs intervention programme (DIP).Manchester is achieving significant reductions in acquisitive crime, but recognises that there are still challenges, particularly in tackling issues such as domestic burglary and robbery. Robust plans are in place to tackle these. There is a real focus on student safety and Manchester has developed a Student Safety Business Model. Manchester is a Vigilance area and Safer Homes Fund area which are Home Office programmes aimed at tackling acquisitive crime, particularly burglary and robbery. Greater Manchester police's Operation Storm has had real success in recent reductions in domestic burglary in particular.From 1 April 2010, CSPs are required formulate and implement a strategy "to reduce reoffending". One of Manchester's priorities includes reducing the offending of prolific and priority offenders and the partnership is currently exceeding the targets set in the Local Area Agreement. Manchester will shortly introduce Integrated Offender Management (IOM) based on the Greater Manchester Spotlight model and will have three co-located IOM teams covering the city. This will manage the most serious offenders including those responsible for acquisitive crime, and violent and domestic violence offences.The Neighbourhood Statistics Service provides a wide range of statistical information at parliamentary constituency level, taken from the 2001 census and other sources. This service is available on the National Statistics website at:"http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk./"

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1265-8W; 322139

House

House of Commons

DNA: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the familial searches of the national DNA database have resulted in a prosecution since the creation of that database.

Asked by

David Davis (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1261W; 325267

House

House of Commons

Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his most recent estimate is of the proportion of police (a) time and (b) budget spent on tackling (i) gang related crimes, (ii) robbery, (iii) criminal damage and (iv) sexual offences.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 February 2010

For answer on

22 February 2010

Answered on

6 April 2010

Table A contains the percentages of police officer time spent on different activities for the financial year 2007-08 for England and Wales. To reduce paperwork burdens on police officers the collection of data about time spent by officers on police activities ceased after 2007-08 in response to the recommendations by Sir David Normington in his review of data burdens placed by the Government on the police service published in February 2009. Activities are grouped according to whether they are related to crime incidents, related to non-crime incidents (e.g. road traffic accidents), or not related to specific incidents. In this last case, these activities could be related to crime (e.g. prison interviews), or to general police duties and activities (e.g. training).The Policing Green Paper published in July 2008 introduced a robust programme to reduce bureaucracy and free-up officer time. This is enabling frontline staff to focus on dealing with the public's priorities, as measured against the confidence target—now the only top-down target on forces.Table A indicates that, in 2007-08, the police in England spent 32.7 per cent. of their time on all crime incident-specific activities, 14.6 per cent. of their time on all non-crime incident specific activities, and 52.7 per cent. of their time on activities which were not related to specific incidents (although some of this will be crime-related).The comparative figures for Wales are 27.9 per cent., 20.7 per cent. and 51.5 per cent. respectively.Overall, in 2007-08, police in England and Wales spent 32.5 per cent. of their time on all crime incident-specific activities, 14.9 per cent. of their time on all non-crime incident specific activities, and 52.7 per cent. of their time on activities which were not related to specific incidents.For the specific offence groupings of robbery, criminal damage and sexual offending, the amount of time spent by the police in England and Wales in 2007-08 on incident-specific activities, as a proportion of total police time, was 2.2 per cent., 2.1 per cent. and 2.3 per cent. respectively. As a proportion of total crime incident-specific time, the figures were 6.7 per cent., 6.3 per cent. and 7.2 per cent. respectively. There is no category of 'gang-related crimes'.Table B contains police spend on different activities for the financial year 2007-08. As before, crime and non-crime incident-specific activities are differentiated. The categorisation of non-incident specific activities is different in Table B from Table A, however. Table B does not include costs of activities such as training, which are instead treated as overheads and included in the costs of all other activities. Further, Table B separates out some activities which are undertaken by particular staff or roles (e.g. 'intelligence analysis and research')—these are not included in Table A, as activity analysis covered only police officers working on foot, car or beat patrol, CID and traffic duties. Note that costs in Table B do not include 'sustaining overheads' such as running costs for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).Table B indicates that for the financial year 2007-08 the police in England and Wales spent 34.9 per cent. of its total budget (excluding sustaining overheads) on crime incident-specific activities. For the same specific offence groupings of robbery, criminal damage and sexual offending, the amount of budget spent by the police in England and Wales in 2007-08 on incident-specific activities, as a proportion of total police budget (excluding sustaining overheads), was 2.0 per cent., 2.2 per cent. and 2.6 per cent. respectively. As a proportion of total crime incident-specific budget spending, the figures were 5.7 per cent., 6.3 per cent. and 7.4 per cent. respectively. As before, there is no category of 'gang-related crimes'.By way of context, Table C provides proportions of crime incidents of different types alongside the proportion of time and budgetary spend on crime devoted to these incident types. Thus it can be seen that, in 2007-08, robbery accounted for 1.7 per cent. of crime incidents, and 6.7 per cent. and 5.7 per cent. of police time and budgetary spend respectively. Criminal damage accounted for 21 per cent. of crime incidents, and 6.3 per cent. of both police time and budget. Sexual offences accounted for 1.1 per cent. of crime incidents, and 7.2 per cent. and 7.4 per cent. of police time and budget respectively.

Table A: Police time by activity, England and Wales¹, 2007-08
	Percentage of time
Activity	England	Wales	Total
Dealing with crime incidents
Violence against the person—S20 and more serious	3.4	2.3	3.3
Violence against the person—S47 and less serious	4.0	4.2	4.0
Sexual offences	2.3	2.1	2.3
Burglary dwelling	2.8	2.8	2.8
Burglary—commercial and other	1.2	1.5	1.2
Robbery	2.2	0.9	2.2
Theft of or from motor vehicle	1.8	1.7	1.8
Deception/fraud	1.2	0.9	1.2
Theft other	3.3	3.0	3.3
Drugs offences	2.8	2.7	2.8
Criminal damage	2.0	3.2	2.1
Other crime	5.6	2.6	5.5
Total	32.7	27.9	32.5

Dealing with non-crime incidents
RTA fatal/serious	1.0	0.9	1.0
RTA minor injury/damage	1.2	1.7	1.2
Traffic Other	2.4	3.8	2.5
Public disorder	1.9	2.8	2.0
Domestic dispute	2.1	2.4	2.2
Complaint/nuisance	0.9	2.5	1.0
Prostitution	0.1	0.0	0.1
False alarms	0.1	0.3	0.2
Missing person	1.1	1.7	1.2
Sudden/suspicious death	0.6	1.2	0.6
Other non crime	3.0	3.3	3.1
Total	14.6	20.7	14.9

Non-incident related
Visible Patrol	13.7	15.2	13.8
Court duties/escort	0.4	0.3	0.4
Special operations/events	1.9	1.6	1.8
Investigate complaints	0.2	0.2	0.2
Deal with informants	0.4	0.0	0.3
Community Involvement	1.3	1.3	1.3
Property inquiries	0.3	0.4	0.3
Non incident inquiries	1.5	1.6	1.5
Crime prevention activity	0.4	0.2	0.4
Prison interviews	0.1	0.0	0.1
Training	1.9	1.1	1.8
Briefings/meetings	6.6	7.2	6.6
Non incident linked paperwork	7.4	7.0	7.4
Other non incident related work	5.0	3.6	4.9
Staff development, appraisal, personnel-related	0.9	0.7	0.8
Monitoring cellblock PACE	0.3	0.2	0.3
Relief custody duties	0.4	0.8	0.4
Call handling/relief control room duties/enquiry desk	0.2	0.2	0.2
Checking paperwork (supervisory)	1.8	2.3	1.8
Budgetary/financial	0.1	0.1	0.1
ID parades	0.1	0.1	0.1
Other managerial/supervision	3.6	2.7	3.5
Refreshments	4.2	4.6	4.2
Waiting time	0.3	0.1	0.3
Total	52.7	51.5	52.7

Grand total	100.0	100.0	100.0
¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08.

Table B: Police spend by activity, England and Wales¹, 2007-08
Activity	Spend (£000)	Spend (percentage)
Dealing with crime incidents
Violence against the person—S20 and more serious	395,906	4.50
Violence against the person—S47 and less serious	346,819	4.00
Sexual offences	226,678	2.60
Burglary dwelling	259,262	3.00
Burglary—commercial and other	130,232	1.50
Robbery	170,458	2.00
Theft of or from motor vehicle	195,493	2.20
Deception/fraud	130,792	1.50
Theft other	273,557	3.10
Drugs offences	271,550	3.10
Criminal damage	187,576	2.20
Other crime	452,835	5.20
Total	3,041,159	35

Dealing with non-crime incidents
RTA fatal/serious	76,905	0.90
RTA minor injury/damage	105,163	1.20
Traffic Other	243,729	2.80
Public disorder	235,011	2.70
Domestic dispute	175,446	2.00
Complaint/nuisance	99,671	1.10
Prostitution	7,876	0.10
False alarms	13,058	0.10
Missing person	112,040	1.30
Sudden/suspicious death	81,260	0.90
Other non crime	276,938	3.20
Total	1,427,097	16

Non-incident related
Visible Patrol	1,207,838	13.80
Court duties/escort	35,643	0.40
Special operations/events	225,440	2.60
Deal with informants	39,985	0.50
Community Involvement	169,188	1.90
Property inquiries	32,032	0.40
Non incident inquiries	135,039	1.50
Crime prevention activity	64,865	0.70
Prison interviews	7,332	0.10
Role Code—National, international policing, CT and Special Branch	474,839	5.40
Role Code—Crime partnerships	90,021	1.00
Role Code—Maintaining and developing partnerships	35,687	0.40
Role Code—Intelligence Research and Analysis	368,101	4.20
Role Code—Prisoner handling/custody	399,657	4.60
Role Code—Call handling/inquiry office	603,164	6.90
Role Code—Licensing	23,475	0.30
Role Code—Criminal Justice	273,753	3.10
Role Code—Police protection	21,014	0.20
Role Code—Family liaison	19,830	0.20
Role Code—Warrants	16,581	0.20
ID parades	9,698	0.10
Total	8,721,439	49

Grand total	4,253,184	100.00
¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08.

Table C: Proportions of crime incidents, crime incident-related activity and crime incident-related spend by crime type, England and Wales¹ 2007-08
	Percentage
Crime incident type	Crime incidents	Time on crime incidents	Budget on crime incidents
Violence against the person—S20 and more serious	0.5	10.3	12.9
Violence against the person—S47 and less serious	18.8	12.4	11.5
Sexual offences	1.1	7.2	7.4
Burglary dwelling	5.7	8.6	8.6
Burglary—commercial and other	6.2	3.7	4.3
Robbery	1.7	6.7	5.7
Theft of or from motor vehicle	13.3	5.4	6.3
Deception/fraud	3.2	3.7	4.3
Theft other	22.3	10.1	8.9
Drugs offences	4.6	8.6	8.9
Criminal damage	21.0	6.3	6.3
Other crime	1.4	17.0	14.9
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0
¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08.

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1273-6W; 317836

House

House of Commons

Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) drug dealers, (b) people dealing in counterfeit currency and (c) people dealing in counterfeit goods in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1257W; 317772

House

House of Commons

Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times he has visited Shropshire in an official capacity in the last 12 months.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1283-4W; 325415

House

House of Commons

Identity Cards: Passports

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy not to combine the identity card and biometric passport schemes.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1269W; 318773

House

House of Commons

Identity Cards: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department by what means police in Greater Manchester are able to verify that an identity card is valid.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1269W; 314774

House

House of Commons

Police: Bureaucracy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what five types of activity, excluding front-line policing, accounted for most police officer time in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

24 February 2010

For answer on

26 February 2010

Answered on

30 March 2010

Front-line policing was defined in Home Office Guidance on Statutory Performance Indicators for Policing 2007-08, to include the following activities which have been measured using policy activity analysis (AA).Dealing with crime incidents; Dealing with non-crime incidents; Visible patrol; Special operations/events; Investigate complaints; Deal with informants; and community involvement.In each of the years between 2003-04 and 2007-08, the first three of these categories were consistently the activities on which the police spent most time. After the activities which comprise front-line policing, the same five activities took up the greatest proportions of police time over the same 2003-04 and 2007-08 period. They were, in descending order of time taken:"Non-incident-related paperwork""Briefings/meetings""Other non-incident-related work""Refreshments""Other managerial/supervision."The amount of time spent annually on these activities in total over the period 2003-04 and 2007-08 was as follows:"2003-04: 26.9 per cent;""2004-05: 7.6 per cent;""2005-06: 26.9 per cent;""2006-07: 24.3 per cent;""2007-08: 25.6 per cent."To reduce paperwork burdens on police officers, the collection of data about time spent by officers on police activities ceased after 2007-08 in response to the recommendations by Sir David Normington in his review of data burdens placed by the Government on the police service published in February 2009.

Table A: proportion of time spent or policing activities, by activity and year
Activity	2003-04	2004-05	200-06	200-07	200-08
Violence against the person—S20 and more serious	3.2	2.9	3.0	3.0	3.3
Violence against the person—S47 and less serious	3.0	3.4	3.9	4.4	4.1
Sexual offences	2.0	2.0	2.3	2.2	2.3
Burglary dwelling	3.1	2.8	2.5	2.8	2.8
Burglary—commercial and other	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.2
Robbery	1.7	1.8	1.8	2.0	2.2
Theft of or from motor vehicle	2.2	1.9	2.0	1.9	1.8
Deception/fraud	1.2	1.3	1.3	1.5	1.2
Theft other	3.4	3.0	3.1	3.4	3.4
Drugs offences	2.3	2.4	2.8	2.6	2.8
Criminal damage	2.2	2.3	2.3	2.5	2.2
Other crime	4.4	4.2	4.4	5.5	5.4
RTA fatal/serious	0.9	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.1
RTA minor injury/damage	1.5	1.6	1.5	1.5	1.3
Traffic Other	2.8	3.0	2.9	2.9	2.7
Public disorder	1.8	1.9	2.1	1.6	2.0
Domestic dispute	1.5	1.6	1.8	2.0	2.2
Complaint/nuisance	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.2	1.0
Prostitution	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
False alarms	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Missing person	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.4	1.2
Sudden/suspicious death	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.7
Other non crime	3.2	2.9	2.7	3.1	3.1
Visible Patrol	14.8	15.7	14.4	14.0	14.4
Court duties/escort	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.5
Special operations/events	2.2	2.0	1.6	1.7	1.8
Investigate complaints	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Deal with informants	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3
Community Involvement	1.1	1.3	1.3	1.4	1.3
Property enquiries	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3
Non incident enquiries	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.4	1.5
Crime prevention activity	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
Prison interviews	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Training	2.0	1.7	1.6	1.4	1.7
Briefings/meetings	6.9	6.6	6.4	5.9	6.5
Non incident linked paperwork	7.8	6.6	6.5	6.5	7.3
Other non incident related work	4.5	6.5	6.3	4.6	4.3
Staff development/appraisal/personnel related	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.9	0.8
Monitoring cellblock PACE (Domain 2)	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3
Relief custody duties (Domain 2)	0.5	0.6	1.2	1.1	0.4
Call handling/relief control room duties/enquiry desk	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1
Checking paperwork (supervisory)	1.8	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.8
Budgetary/financial	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
ID parades	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.1
Other managerial/supervision	2.9	3.2	3.2	3.1	3.3
Refreshments	4.8	4.7	4.5	4.2	4.2
Waiting time	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
All crime	30.1	29.3	30.7	33.1	32.6
All non-crime incidents	15.1	15.2	15.3	16.0	15.6

Date

30 March 2010

Reference

508 c935-7W; 319522

House

House of Commons

Police: Bureaucracy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the proportion of police officer time spent (a) inside police stations and (b) on the street in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

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Answered

Date

30 March 2010

Reference

508 c937W; 319532

House

House of Commons

Extremist Websites

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the list of extremist websites, bookshops, networks, centres and organisations announced by the then Prime Minister on 5 August 2005 was first established; on what dates the list has been updated; whether the deportation of a foreign national has...

Asked by

Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

19 November 2009

For answer on

23 November 2009

Answered on

30 March 2010

The Prime Minster's announcement on 5 August 2005 set out a 12 point plan designed to counter the threat of terrorism. As my right hon. Friend the former Home Secretary said on 1 September 2008, Official Report, column 1594W, significant progress had been made on the 12 point plan and that all counter-terrorist work was now subsumed into the Government's long-term counter-terrorist strategy (the Contest strategy).The Home Secretary may make a deportation order where he is satisfied that deportation is conducive to the public good. The basis for such a decision could include, for example, the individual being engaged in the promotion or dissemination of extremist material (including via websites, bookshops, networks, centres and organisations). The police and other law enforcement and intelligence partners work closely to identify sources of extremism. Where an individual is found to have been engaged in the encouragement of terrorism or dissemination of terrorist publications, the police and CPS would seek to prosecute them. In the case of a foreign national engaged in extremist activities, we seek to deport them. In the case of organisations, the Terrorism Act 2000 allows an organisation to be proscribed if the Home Secretary believes it is concerned in terrorism. The Terrorism Act 2006 extended the meaning of concerned in terrorism to include the unlawful glorification of acts of terrorism.I am not prepared to comment on individual cases of deportation. I can, however, confirm that individuals who are suspected to have engaged in extremist activity have been deported on grounds that their presence in the UK not being considered conducive to the public good. I refer the hon. Member to the answers given to him on 30 November 2009, Official Report, column 474W, which provide the number of foreign nationals deported from the UK on the grounds of unacceptable behaviour (relating to foreign nationals who foment hatred or violence in support of their extremist beliefs).The police and other counter-terrorism partners seek to identify extremist websites, bookshops, networks, centres and organisations. A list of proscribed organisations is available on the Home Office website at:"http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/terrorist-threat/proscribed-terrorist-orgs/proscribed-terrorist-groups/index.html"For national security reasons it is not possible to provide details of all such websites, premises or organisations of concern.

Date

30 March 2010

Reference

508 c934W; 301377

House

House of Commons

Counter-terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding has been allocated for expenditure on advertising in respect of the anti-terrorist hotline in the financial year 2009-10; what payments his Department has made to each media outlet in respect of such advertisement; what assessment he has...

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 March 2010

Reference

508 c929-30W; 324025

House

House of Commons

Media outlet	Payments made in 2009-10 (£)
National press	299,630
London radio	170,876
National radio	159,175
TalkSPORT	100,090
Women's magazines	96,648
Door drops	72,713
Minority press	38,361
Wales press	24,442
Welsh radio	15,981
London press	13,664
Social media	10,245
Taxi trade press	3,762
Total	1,005,587

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