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Force/Station codeCrime reference
Court
Disposed Date
Offence
Taken Into Consideration (Offence)
Disposal
Taken Into Consideration (Composite)
The vehicles application on the new police national computer may contain information in the following data classes :
Vehicle Identification number
Chassis number
Current Vehicle Registration Mark
Previous Vehicle Registration Mark
Foreign Vehicle Marker
Stolen Vehicle Marker
Vehicle Make
Vehicle Model
Vehicle Type
Vehicle Colour
Engine Number
Vehicle Registration Office code
Year and month of registration
Date of last keeper change
Owner name
Owner Address
Owner postcode
Markers
Date of Last Description update
Time of Last Description update
Force station code of description owner
Force station code of description creator
Force station code of last description update
Date of recovery
Force station code of recovery
Police information may be added to these vehicle records in the form of one or more of the following report types :
Lost or stolen
Found
Information
Seen/checked
Restricted
Removed
Correction
These reports may contain information in the following data classes :
Vehicle report type
Vehicle report number
Vehicle report text
Reference number
Earliest date of incident
Latest date of incident
Date of report creation
Time of report creation
Force station code of report owner
Force station code of report creator
Force station code of last update
Date of last update
Time of last update
Report confirmed marker
The stolen property index (formerly known as the chassis/engine index) may contain information in the following data classes about plant, trailers, caravans, engines, marine engines and motorcycle sidecars :
Item number
Fleet number
Report type
Report text
Loser details
Earliest date of theft
Latest date of theft
Item type
Item make
Plant type
Item model
Item colour
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Engine capacityReference number
Force station code of report owner
Force station code of report creator
Force station code of last update
Date of last update
Time of last update
Report confirmed marker
The broadcast application enables forces to send messages to printer terminals in specified destination forces. The messages are stored for 24 hours after creation.
The message log application automatically records the full details of all on-line transactions. The information is retained on the log for six months.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will describe the improvements in communications between police forces computers and the new police national computer ; whether all police force computers will be linked into the new network ; whether police forces will be able to transmit databases to each other and search other police computer systems ; and whether he will make a statement.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : The new police national computer will be linked to all forces through the existing network, modified as necessary to ensure compatibility with the new equipment.
We are discussing with the police service its requirements for a wider police network which would permit the exchange of information between forces, but no decisions have yet been taken about the scope of this network.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the data protection registrar has been asked to comment on the facilities that will be provided by the new police national computer and network.
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Mr. Douglas Hogg : The data protection registrar has been consulted about the facilities which will be provided by the new police national computer.
Criminal Injury and Damage Claims
Ms. Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the current situation concerning the widow of a common law husband with reference to entitlement to claims for a criminal injury and damage.
Mr. John Patten : Under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 courts in England and Wales may award damages for financial dependency and funeral expenses to a common law widow who had lived with the man continuously for at least the last two years before his death. Awards under the criminal injuries compensation scheme are confined in such cases to funeral expenses. There is no general entitlement to compensation for damage, although the courts have power to order an offender upon conviction to pay compensation for damage he has caused.
Obscene Publications Act 1959
Mr. Gerald Howarth : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many prosecutions there have been under section 2 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 ; and of those found guilty, what sentence was imposed in England and Wales since 1979 ; (2) how many orders have been made at magistrates courts in England and Wales to forfeit obscene articles under section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 in each year since 1979.
Mr. John Patten : Information held centrally for 1982 to 1987 is given in the table. Information prior to 1982 would involve disproportionate cost.
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Persons proceeded against for offences under the Obscene Publications
Act 1959
England and Wales
|1982|1983|1984|1985|1986|1987
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Number proceeded against |539 |757 |890 |540 |231 |154
Total found guilty |234 |370 |429 |225 |129 |93
Absolute or conditional discharge |9 |7 |13 |12 |3 |4
Probation order |- |1 |- |3 |1 |1
Fine |128 |248 |291 |130 |80 |63
Community service order |1 |3 |3 |4 |1 |3
Fully suspended sentence |38 |60 |77 |50 |20 |10
Immediate custody |58 |49 |42 |25 |15 |12
Otherwise dealt with |- |2 |3 |1 |9 |-
Number subject to forfeiture order |1 |5 |6 |9 |14 |15
Mr. Gerald Howarth : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many items of obscene material were seized by police under section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 in England and Wales in each year since 1979.
Mr. Renton : Information about seizures of items under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 is not held centrally. The only information which can be obtained without disproportionate cost relates to the Metropolitan police, and is set out in the following table :
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Items seized by the Metropolitan Police under
the Obscene
Publications Act 1959, 1979 to 1988.
|Number of items
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1979 |1,170,752
1980 |849,879
1981 |554,862
1982 |1,081,404
1983 |2,071,190
1984 |288,259
1985 |286,511
1986 |560,047
1987 |813,243
1988 |655,119
Electoral Register
Mr. Harry Barnes : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to improve electoral registration in Kensington and Chelsea, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol and Rochester upon Medway.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : The registration of persons entitled to vote is the statutory duty of the electoral registration officers for the districts or London boroughs concerned. I am confident that their aim is to produce as comprehensive and accurate a register as possible, and we intend to support them as in previous years with an appropriate publicity campaign at the time of the autumn canvass.
Mr. Harry Barnes : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he holds information for any other countries on the use made by taxation authorities of electoral registers ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) if he holds information for any other countries on the use made by local authorities of electoral registers for their own financial purposes ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Harry Barnes : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to examine the impact of the community charge on electoral registration.
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