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Companies (Relocation)
Rev. Martin Smyth : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information he has on the number of companies which have relocated from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland in the last three years.
Mr. Atkins : I am aware of two companies which relocated from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland in this period.
Polling Stations
Mr. Trimble : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps the chief electoral officer intends to take to consult political parties in Northern Ireland on the new polling station scheme.
Mr. Hanley : The chief electoral officer will publish a new draft polling station scheme and invite comments on it shortly after the electoral register is published on 15 February. Any elector or group of electors may make objections to or proposals about the scheme within 14 days
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of publication. I understand that the CEO wrote to the political parties in Northern Ireland in November 1992 to inform them of the impending review and of the scheduled publication of a new draft scheme.Appointments
Mr. Canavan : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether he will update the information given in his answer to the hon. Member for Don Valley (Mr. Redmond) on 2 November 1992, Official Report, columns 44-48 ; and if he will state the political affiliation of the appointees where known.
Mr. Mates : The following are details of public appointments made by my right hon. and learned Friend during the period 1 November 1992 to 31 January 1993.
In making public appointments, the prime consideration is the appointee's ability or potential to contribute to the work of the particular body to which he or she is appointed. In Northern Ireland other major factors taken into account are community background and gender.
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Appointments and re-appointments to public bodies from 1 November 1992 to 31 January 1993
Name |Public body name |Category |Position |Date of appointment |Date of expiry
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Mr. P. H. McWilliams |Industrial Development Board |A |Member | 1 January 1993 |31 December 1995
Sir K. P. Bloomfield |NI Higher Education Council |A |Chairman | 1 January 1993 |Indeterminate
Dr. M. N. Hayes |Community Relations Council NI |A |Member | 1 January 1993 |31 December 1995
Mr. P. A. Duffy |International Fund for Ireland |A |Member | 1 January 1993 |31 December 1995
Mr. J. E. Craig |International Fund for Ireland |A |Member | 1 January 1993 |31 December 1995
Mr. J. L. McCrum |International Fund for Ireland |A |Member | 1 January 1993 |31 December 1995
Mr. P. Kenny |International Fund for Ireland |A |Member | 1 January 1993 |31 December 1995
Mr. W. McCarter |International Fund for Ireland |A |Chairman | 1 January 1993 |31 December 1995
Mr. G. Barr |Community Relations Council NI |A |Member | 1 January 1993 |31 December 1995
Mr. D. McFerran |Community Relations Council NI |A |Member | 1 January 1993 |31 December 1995
Mr. B. A. Slowey |International Fund for Ireland |A |Member | 1 January 1993 |31 December 1995
Ms. C. Murphy |International Fund for Ireland |A |Member | 1 January 1993 |31 December 1995
Mr. N. W. Shaw |Health and Social Services Trusts- |A |Chairman |23 November 1992 |22 November 1996
|appointment of lay helpers and
|chairmen
Mrs. B. M. McLaughlin |Health and Social Services Trusts- |A |Chairman |23 November 1992 |31 August 1993
|appointment of lay helpers and |designate
|chairmen
Mr. G. Burnison |Health and Social Services Trusts- |A |Chairman |23 November 1992 |31 August 1993
|appointment of lay helpers and |designate
|chairmen
Sir D. Faulkner |Health and Social Services Trusts- |A |Chairman |23 November 1992 |22 November 1996
|appointment of lay helpers and
|chairmen
Mr. I. Oswald |Health and Social Services Trusts- |A |Chairman |23 November 1992 |22 November 1996
|appointment of lay helpers and
|chairmen
Mr. J. Shields |Health and Social Services Trusts- |A |Chairman |23 November 1992 |31 August 1993
|appointment of lay helpers and |designate
|chairmen
Mrs. G. A. Shaw |Health and Social Services Trusts- |A |Chairman |23 November 1992 |31 August 1993
|appointment of lay helpers and |designate
|chairmen
Mr. G. H. Moore |Health and Social Services Trusts- |A |Chairman |23 November 1992 |31 August 1993
|appointment of lay helpers and
|chairmen
Mrs. G. M. Loughran |Eastern Health and Social Services |A |Member |21 December 1992 |31 March 1995
|Board |(non-executive)
Mrs. J. I. Ferguson |Eastern Health and Social Seevices Board|A |Member |21 December 1992 |31 March 1995
|Board |(non-executive)
Mrs. P. Farren |NI Transport Holding Company |A |Member | 1 November 1992 |31 October 1995
Mr. I. Doherty |NI Transport Holding Company |A |Member | 1 November 1992 |31 October 1995
Mr. S. McDowell |NI Housing Executive |A |Member | 5 November 1992 | 4 November 1995
Mrs. E. Waterson |NI Housing Executive |A |Member | 5 November 1992 | 4 November 1995
Mrs. M. A. F. Cook |NI Housing Executive |A |Member | 5 November 1992 | 4 November 1995
Mr. J. Hood |NI Housing Executive |A |Member | 5 November 1992 | 4 November 1995
Mr. R. S. McCulloch |NI Transport Holding Company |A |Member |10 November 1992 |30 June 1993
Miss G. M. M. Keegan |Standing Advisory Commission on |A |Member | 7 December 1992 | 6 December 1994
|Human Rights
Mr. D. Hewitt |Independent Assessor of Military |A |Independent |15 December 1992 |14 December 1995
|Complaints Procedures |Assessor
Departmental Costs
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on cash and running cost limits for the Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland departmental service 1992-93.
Sir Patrick Mayhew : Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, it is proposed that the cash limit for class XVII, vote 1 (the Northern Ireland Office) will be increased by £45,832,000 from £844,423,000 to £890,255,000. This is principally to meet additional expenditure on compensation and police costs. The additional provision sought will be mainly met from a transfer within the Northern Ireland block and the balance charged to the reserve. It will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.
The cash limit for most Northern Ireland departmental services will be increased by £20,621,000 from £3,393,100,000 to £3,413,721,000. This increase reflects the take-up of entitlement to end-year flexibility on capital and departmental running costs and the housing package announced by the Chancellor on 12 November 1992. It will be charged to the reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.
The combined running cost limit for the Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Departments will be increased by £4,165,000 from £712,316,000 to
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£716,481,000. This reflects the take up of £2,471,000 of the end year flexibility entitlement announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 15 July 1992, at columns 697-702, a net transfer of £1, 684,000 from the Department of Social Security, mainly in respect of child support costs, and a transfer of £10,000 from the Property Services Agency relating to maintenance work. Of the revised running cost provision £171,362,000 is for the Northern Ireland Office and £545,119,000 for Northern Ireland Departments.Drug Abuse
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the evidence of trends in the level of drug abuse in Northern Ireland during the past five years ; and if he will give details of (a) drugs, by type, seized and their street value and (b) the number of convictions by category.
Mr. Mates [holding answer 1 February 1993] : The quantities and types of drugs seized during the period specified are set out in table 1 which also indicates the trends in drug abuse during the period. Table 2 lists the related convictions over the same time scale.
It is not possible accurately to assess the street value of the drugs seized as the value varies according to availability, quality and demand.
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Table 1
Drug Seizures 1988-92
Year |Cannabis |Cocaine |Heroin |LSD |Amphetamines
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1988 |12.75 kilos |2.51 gms |3.65 gms |917 doses |466.26 gms
1989 |21.71 kilos |52.4 gms |25.35 gms |485 doses |658.£65 gms
|1052 MST tablets |17.80 gms
1990 |37.6 kilos |- |2757 MST tablets |573 doses |95.2 gms
1991 |37.5 kilos |88 gms |250 doses |" kilo Psilocin |625 gms
|Dipipanone
|1.5 kilos herbal |1 gm Morphine |800 doses |25 tablets
|2,711 MDMA
|114 gms
1992 |15.75 kilos |77 gms |9 gms
|51 MST tablets |9,201 doses |5,732 gms
|4,408 MDMA
MST = Morphine Sulphate
MDMA = Ecstasy
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Table 2
Convictions for drug offences 1988-92
Offence |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991 |1992
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Producing controlled drug |3 |4 |1 |3 |4
Importing controlled drug |1 |1 |- |- |1
Supplying controlled drug |12 |14 |5 |3 |10
Possessing controlled drug |97 |105 |98 |140 |242
Possessing controlled drug with
intent to supply |10 |6 |6 |6 |14
Permitting premises to be used for
use of drugs |4 |2 |1 |1 |2
Obstructing powers of search for
drugs |- |- |1 |- |1
Attempting producing controlled
drugs |- |- |1 |- |-
Attempted possessing controlled
drug |4 |- |- |- |-
Conspiracy possessing controlled
drug |1 |- |- |- |-
Permitting possessing controlled
drug |- |1 |- |- |-
|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------
Totals |132 |133 |113 |153 |274
RUC
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many RUC officers, by rank, are operating, full-time, in (a) the anti- drugs unit, (b) the complaints and discipline branch and (c) the anti- racketeering unit.
Mr. Mates [holding answer 1 February 1993] : The current number of RUC officers, by rank, in the drugs squad and the complaints and discipline branch is as follows :
|Number
-----------------------------------------------
Drugs squad
Chief Inspector |1
Inspector |1
Sergeant |4
Constable |28
Complaints and discipline branch
Assistant Chief Constable |1
Chief Superintendent |2
Superintendent |11
Chief Inspector |25
Inspector |11
Sergeant |10
Constable |10
Given the particular operational circumstances under which the anti- racketeering unit works, it is not in the public interest to disclose information as to its strength.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Safer Cities Programme
Mr. Tipping : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the evaluation of the safer cities programme by the Home Office research and statistics department, as it relates to crime rates and the fear of crime, to be completed and published.
Mr. Jack : Evaluation of the safer cities programme is being carried out in two stages : the first uses results from surveys and the second from recorded crime figures obtained from police forces. Surveys have taken the form of before and after studies and are being used to measure any change in levels of victimisation and fear of crime over the period 1990-92. This is intended to provide a snapshot picture of the impact of safer cities action in 11 cities, and is likely to be completed by the autumn of 1993. Police recorded crime figures will be used to look for changes in crime across time. Results from this second stage of the
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evaluation should be available a little later in the year, soon after which it is expected that publication of findings will begin.Mr. Tipping : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many safer cities projects he plans to have operating in the financial year 1994-95 ; and what criteria he will use to select locations for new projects.
Mr. Jack : There are a number of considerations which will affect the pace at which phase 2 safer cities are set up and it is too early to predict the number which will be operating in the financial year 1994-95. We are considering the criteria for the selection of new locations, but among the factors likely to be taken into account will be local crime rates and the readiness of local agencies to work with the programme. I will be looking carefully at projects coming from current urban priority areas which have not yet benefited from safer cities.
Ms. Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason it was decided not to award Stoke on Trent safer city status ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Charles Wardle : When the safer cities programme was launched in March 1988, the 20 project locations were selected from urban programme areas with high crime rates which were aggravated by other social problems, and where other Departments' inner cities programmes were targeted. As Stoke on Trent was not an urban programme area, it was not eligible for inclusion. Plans for the second phase of the safer cities programme are now being drawn up and I have previously undertaken to let the hon. Member have full details as soon as they are available. I made a statement on 7 January which set out the Government's policy on crime prevention, including the future of the safer cities programme. A copy of this statement has been placed in the library.
Mr. Meale : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money each of the safer city projects in the east midlands will receive from his Department in the 1993-94 financial year.
Mr. Jack : There are three safer cities projects in the east midlands, in Derby, Leicester and Nottingham. The projects in Derby and Leicester were set up in the autumn of 1991 and it is intended to maintain their grant allocation at £250,000 in 1993-94 to enable them to support local crime prevention activities. The Nottingham project started in April 1989 and Home Office funding is due to end in March 1994 ; its grant allocation has been set at £100,000 in 1993-94. Nottingham and the other 15 projects where Home Office funding is due to finish next year will
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also have access to additional grant money from a central pool of £500,000 to assist the development of continuing structures for multi-agency crime prevention work.In addition to the sums stated, the Home Office also pays the salaries of the staff and the other running costs of each safer cities project.
The ending of Home Office funding in 16 of the longer established safer cities projects will enable work to be started on a new phase of safer cities in other locations.
HMP, Manchester
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was (a) the original and (b) the revised closing date for tenders in respect of the market testing exercise at Her Majesty's prison Manchester.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : The original closing date was 18 January. No new date has yet been set.
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what additional costs will be incurred in respect of the market testing exercise at Her Majesty's prison Manchester as a result of the effect of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : It is not possible to identify separately any additional costs that might be caused by the application of the Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 to the market testing of HMP Manchester.
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what additional information has been sent to tenderers for Her Majesty's Prison Manchester since 1 January ; and what effect it will have on the tendering process.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : The following information has been sent to all tenderers since 1 January :
On 4 January information about prisoner numbers received and discharged from Her Majesty's Prison Manchester over a three-month period ;
On 6 January a note clarifying the supply of UHF and VHF equipment at the prison ;
On 6 January a note advising that the deadline for the return of bids would be extended ;
On 18 January information on the supply of X-ray machines, security portals and certain furnishings and fittings in the administration suite ;
On 2 February a note on the current number of prisoners in police cells ;
In addition, on 8 January, the Manchester bid team was sent a further copy of schedule 4, appendix 7, to the tender documents. This information was provided to assist tenderers in the preparation of their bids and to inform them that the deadline for receiving bids would be extended.
Departmental Warehousing and Distributing
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will make a statement on the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 to the contracting out of the warehousing and distributing function of the supply and transport branch of his Department ;
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(2) how many staff employed in the warehousing and distributing function of the supply and transport branch of his Department have been issued with redundancy notices ; and if he plans to withdraw these notices.Mr. Kenneth Clarke : The prison service warehousing and distribution activities were market tested in 1991. Competitive bids were received from four private sector companies and there was an in-house bid. In July 1992 the contract was awarded to a private contractor subject to consultation with the trade unions and negotiation of a satisfactory contract.
All of the 141 staff employed in the warehousing and distribution function planned for contracting out were issued with redundancy notices in September 1992. There are currently no plans to withdraw these notices.
At the market testing stage it was not thought that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE) had implications for this market testing exercise, but advice received subsequently is that the regulations would apply. The implications of this advice are now being considered.
Metropolitan Police
Mr. Austin-Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received recently about the number of police officers in the Plumstead and Greenwich divisions of the Metropolitan police ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir John Wheeler : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the Metropolitan Police Commissioner's 1993 corporate strategy.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : I am placing copies of the Metropolitan Police Corporate Strategy, 1993-94 to 1997-98, which I fully endorse, in the Library of the House today. I am also sending copies to all right hon. and hon. Members whose consituencies fall wholly or partly within the Metropolitan police district.
I am inviting London Members to discuss it with me.
Mr. Austin-Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the proposed policing levels for each of the Metropolitan police divisions for 1993 ; and what were the comparable figures for 1991 and 1992, indicating the percentage change.
Mr. Jack : Information is not available in the format requested, and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Market Testing
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the estimated cost of redundancy payments to persons employed in the prison department supply and transport branch as a result of the recent market testing exercise.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The cost of redundancy payments for all of the staff employed in the prison department warehousing and distribution function is estimated at £850,000.
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the cost of the consultancy
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study undertaken by Deloitte Haskins and Sells in 1989 into the warehousing and distribution service in his Department.Mr. Peter Lloyd : The details of costs of individual contracts between Government and contractors are regarded as
commercial-in-confidence.
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the full cost to date of the market testing exercise in respect of supply and transport at his Department.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : Those involved in this market testing exercise have carried out the work required as part of their normal job functions. Detailed records of the amount of time spent by individuals on this particular aspect of their jobs have not been recorded and there would be a disproportionate cost involved in obtaining these details.
False Number Plates
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded offences involving the use of false number plates in each year since 1979.
Mr. Jack : The information requested is not available.
Cash Limits
Sir John Wheeler : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proposals he has for changes to the 1992-93 cash limits within his responsibilities and to his Department's running costs limit.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit on class IX, vote 2, prisons, England and Wales, will be increased by £113,500,000 from £1,363,448,000 to £1,476,948,000.
The additional provision is necessary because of the need to pay for the cost of keeping prisoners in police cells. Extra provision is also necessary to meet the construction costs of new prisons due mainly to claims from contractors. The increase will be charged to the reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.
The cash limit on class IX, vote 3, Home Office administration, immigration and police support services, England and Wales, will be reduced by £12,000,000 from £1,242,192,000 to £1,230,192,000 to reflect a transfer of resources to class IX, vote 1 for the purpose of criminal injuries compensation payments and an increase in the amount of current grant payable for probation and bail hostels. The Home Office running cost limit will be reduced by £2,132,000 from £1,449,076,000 to £1,446,944,000 to reflect lower than expected pay settlements in the prison service.
Prisoners (Razors)
Mr. John Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in which prisons male prisoners have to share razors.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Prisoners are not expected to share razors. The recommended scale allows for three razors per
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prisoner every two weeks. Where this is insufficient, supplies of additional razors can be obtained from a direct call-off contract available to prisons.Radiation Emergencies
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements he has made in his Department to implement the Public Information for Radiation Emergencies Regulations 1992.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The Public Information for Radiation Emergencies Regulations 1992 place duties on employers and self-employed persons who conduct an undertaking from which a radiation emergency is reasonably foreseeable, and on first-tier local authorities. They place no duties on the Home Office.
Crime (London)
Mr. Butler : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he next expects to meet the metropolitan police commissioner to discuss action against crime in London.
Mr. Charles Wardle : My right hon. and learned Friend has already discussed with the new commissioner his approach to his responsibilities, including this one, and will meet him frequently on a range of issues over the coming months.
Elections (Mechanisation)
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to introduce electronic systems for counting ballot papers at election counts.
Mr. Maclennam : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider the introduction of a mechanised voting system for public elections on a trial basis at specified locations.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : We have set up a working group of local authority representatives and Home Office officials as part of our post-election review to look at the implications of introducing procedures for automated vote counting. We shall consider the working group's recommendations once it has reported its findings. We have no plans to introduce an automated voting system.
Relate
Ms. Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out the funding in real terms for Relate in each year from 1987-88 to 1993-94 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Jack : The Home Office grant-in-aid to Relate for each year from 1987-88 to 1993-94 is as follows in actual terms and real terms, using 1991 -92 as the base year.
|Actual expenditure|Real terms
|expenditure
|£ |£
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1987-88 |912,870 |1,204,902
1988-89 |935,910 |1,151,478
1989-90 |958,890 |1,106,408
1990-91 |1,006,840 |1,076,408
1991-92 |1,107,500 |1,107,500
1992-93 |1,511,400 |1,449,784
1993-94 |1,530,500 |1,428,811
In real terms, there has been an increase of 18.6 per cent. in the grant during the period in question ; the actual increase is 67.7 per cent.
Car Crime
Mr. David Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to set up a national squad to combat the problem of car crime ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Charles Wardle : My right hon. and learned Friend has no plans to create a national squad to deal with this particular type of crime.
Crime Statistics
Mr. Sweeney : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answers of 9 November 1992, Official Report, columns 636- 66, if he will list in descending order for each police force in England and Wales the percentage changes in notifiable offences since 1979 together with the total resident population of each force area in 1981 and 1991, the number of police officers in 1981 and 1991 and the percentage clear-up rate in 1979 and 1992.
Mr. Jack : The available statistics are provided in the tables. Figures for percentage clear-up rate are not yet available for 1992. Population figures are a matter for the Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment.
Police force strength
England and Wales
Police strength
(Actual)
Police force area |1981 |1991
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Avon and Somerset |3,014 |3,072
Bedfordshire |983 |1,090
Cambridgeshire |1,120 |1,239
Cheshire |1,850 |1,867
Cleveland |1,475 |1,477
Cumbria |1,113 |1,183
Derbyshire |1,779 |1,706
Devon and Cornwall |2,694 |2,876
Dorset |1,162 |1,280
Durham |1,344 |1,378
Essex |2,612 |2,878
Gloucestershire |1,126 |1,178
Greater Manchester |6,928 |6,975
Hampshire |3,048 |3,177
Hertfordshire |1,568 |1,679
Humberside |1,955 |2,016
Kent |2,868 |3,039
Lancashire |3,153 |3,205
Leicestershire |1,728 |1,808
Lincolnshire |1,182 |1,198
London, City of |863 |809
Merseyside |4,647 |4,605
Metropolitan Police District |25,075 |28,126
Norfolk |1,263 |1,419
Northamptonshire |1,003 |1,156
Northumbria |3,331 |3,460
North Yorkshire |1,353 |1,382
Nottinghamshire |2,259 |2,334
South Yorkshire |2,874 |2,989
Staffordshire |2,095 |2,185
Suffolk |1,114 |1,203
Surrey |1,593 |1,681
Sussex |2,824 |2,969
Thames Valley |3,091 |3,722
Warwickshire |925 |1,005
West Mercia |1,933 |2,028
West Midlands |6,689 |6,893
West Yorkshire |5,147 |5,143
Wiltshire |1,042 |1,212
Dyfed-Powys |925 |944
Gwent |963 |995
North Wales |1,288 |1,343
South Wales |3,082 |3,142
|---- |----
Total |118,081 |125,066
Percentage change in notifiable offences and percentage of offences
cleared up
England and Wales
Percentage
cleared up<1>
Police force area |Percentage change|1979 |1991
|1991 over 1979<1>
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Gloucestershire |260 |51 |35
Avon and Somerset |212 |43 |24
Leicestershire |207 |54 |29
Warwickshire |205 |46 |24
Norfolk |200 |47 |37
Lincolnshire |169 |60 |46
Northamptonshire |168 |48 |31
Kent |163 |50 |23
Humberside |161 |45 |32
Devon and Cornwall |159 |46 |29
Thames Valley |158 |45 |22
North Yorkshire |146 |51 |36
Cambridgeshire |145 |47 |36
West Yorkshire |144 |37 |28
Durham |143 |52 |30
Sussex |141 |53 |23
South Wales |138 |46 |29
Cumbria |135 |56 |40
Staffordshire |136 |51 |37
Dyfed-Powys |132 |62 |50
Dorset |129 |46 |41
West Mercia |129 |49 |35
Cleveland |127 |51 |33
Hampshire |126 |46 |28
South Yorkshire |125 |51 |36
Northumbria |123 |53 |35
Greater Manchester |120 |45 |36
Cheshire |119 |58 |41
Bedfordshire |114 |48 |19
Nottinghamshire |109 |51 |27
Suffolk |108 |57 |37
Essex |108 |42 |32
Derbyshire |104 |50 |28
Lancashire |105 |56 |40
Wiltshire |103 |42 |40
West Midlands |100 |37 |31
Gwent |98 |60 |47
Surrey |94 |47 |23
North Wales |91 |59 |36
Metropolitan Police
District |69 |21 |17
Hertfordshire |53 |54 |33
Merseyside |37 |42 |45
London, City of |13 |21 |20
|--- |--- |---
Total |114 |41 |29
<1>Excluding offences of Criminal Damage value £20 and under.
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Crime Clear-up Rates
Mr. Sweeney : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of offences cleared up and the percentage of the total clear-up rate in each police force in England and Wales in 1981 and 1991 in terms of (a) those charged and found guilty, (b) those charged and summoned, (c) those taken into consideration where the offence had previously been reported, (d) those taken into consideration where the crime had not previously been reported, (e) as a result of admissions to further offences from persons already in prison and (f) by no futher action.
Mr. Jack : The available information for 1991 is given in the table. Corresponding figures for 1981 are not available.
Notifiable offences<1> cleared up by the police by method of clear up
England and Wales 1991
Police force area Charged or Caution Taken into Taken into Interview of Other Total cleared up Clear up rate
summonsed consideration consideration (not convicted prisoner
(previously previously
recorded) recorded)
|Number |Percentage of total |Number |Percentage of total |Number |Percentage of total |Number |Percentage of total |Number |Percentage of total |Number |Percentage of total |Number of notifiable|Percentage of total
|cleared up |cleared up |cleared up |cleared up |cleared up |cleared up |offences |notifiable offences
|cleared up
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Avon and Somerset |18,843 |53 |3,328 |9 |2,283 |6 |3,151 |9 |5,234 |15 |2,736 |8 |35,575 |24
Bedfordshire |6,655 |61 |1,564 |14 |980 |9 |749 |7 |176 |2 |824 |8 |10,948 |19
Cambridgeshire |7,386 |36 |2,611 |13 |2,806 |14 |2,989 |15 |2,477 |12 |2,319 |11 |20,588 |36
Cheshire |13,699 |54 |2,710 |11 |2,643 |10 |1,084 |4 |4,230 |17 |806 |3 |25,172 |41
Cleveland |8,654 |35 |3,488 |14 |7,597 |31 |567 |2 |4,139 |17 |372 |1 |24,817 |33
Cumbria |7,767 |45 |2,771 |16 |1,492 |9 |1,646 |10 |2,335 |14 |1,184 |7 |17,195 |40
Derbyshire |9,256 |46 |3,229 |16 |2,456 |12 |1,549 |8 |1,380 |7 |2,196 |11 |20,066 |28
Devon and Cornwall |18,134 |58 |4,081 |13 |2,568 |8 |2,267 |7 |2,086 |7 |1,883 |6 |31,019 |29
Dorset |9,586 |45 |1,624 |8 |2,532 |12 |433 |2 |5,977 |28 |939 |4 |21,091 |41
Durham |11,896 |65 |1,121 |6 |946 |5 |1,268 |7 |1,937 |11 |1,160 |6 |18,328 |30
Essex |13,526 |40 |3,992 |12 |6,075 |18 |5,373 |16 |1,929 |6 |2,623 |8 |33,518 |32
Gloucestershire |6,345 |32 |2,322 |12 |1,461 |7 |2,021 |10 |6,330 |32 |1,096 |6 |19,575 |35
Greater Manchester |40,699 |32 |10,867 |9 |25,262 |20 |7,460 |6 |40,629 |32 |1,547 |1 |126,464 |36
Hampshire |19,565 |49 |7,194 |18 |4,805 |12 |2,244 |6 |4,044 |10 |1,889 |5 |39,741 |28
Hertfordshire |9,121 |50 |2,304 |13 |2,932 |16 |2,035 |11 |527 |3 |1,320 |7 |18,239 |33
Humberside |15,527 |42 |4,882 |13 |5,699 |16 |2,019 |6 |4,676 |13 |3,800 |10 |36,648 |32
Kent |15,128 |49 |5,847 |19 |2,539 |8 |3,644 |12 |583 |2 |2,847 |9 |30,608 |23
Lancashire |17,903 |42 |3,424 |8 |6,396 |15 |2,702 |6 |9,465 |22 |2,673 |6 |42,563 |40
Leicestershire |9,576 |37 |4,442 |17 |4,572 |18 |2,581 |10 |2,889 |11 |1,514 |6 |25,574 |29
Lincolnshire |8,786 |44 |2,624 |13 |3,180 |16 |1,142 |6 |2,385 |12 |2,035 |10 |20,152 |46
London, City of |1,022 |67 |209 |14 |133 |9 |53 |3 |35 |2 |74 |5 |1,526 |20
Merseyside |22,750 |36 |4,582 |7 |7,332 |11 |2,440 |4 |25,589 |40 |1,111 |2 |63,804 |45
Metropolitan Police |92,669 |62 |14,035 |9 |10,388 |7 |0 |0 |1,679 |1 |30,245 |20 |149,016 |17
Norfolk |10,974 |47 |2,045 |9 |2,626 |11 |2,476 |11 |4,612 |20 |548 |2 |23,281 |37
Northamptonshire |7,212 |41 |1,694 |10 |2,589 |15 |543 |3 |3,458 |19 |2,286 |13 |17,782 |31
Northumbria |21,318 |29 |6,870 |9 |11,988 |16 |2,851 |4 |18,790 |25 |11,979 |16 |73,796 |35
North Yorkshire |8,298 |46 |2,007 |11 |1,745 |10 |2,779 |15 |1,972 |11 |1,214 |7 |18,015 |36
Nottinghamshire |21,871 |57 |6,615 |17 |4,794 |12 |4,370 |11 |745 |2 |300 |1 |38,695 |27
South Yorkshire |21,634 |51 |4,214 |10 |1,568 |4 |1,036 |2 |10,428 |24 |3,702 |9 |42,582 |36
Staffordshire |14,259 |45 |3,669 |12 |3,612 |11 |1,385 |4 |7,242 |23 |1,367 |4 |31,534 |37
Suffolk |10,377 |71 |2,753 |19 |89 |1 |43 |0 |188 |1 |1,176 |8 |14,626 |37
Surrey |5,946 |53 |2,011 |18 |927 |8 |928 |8 |411 |4 |1,026 |9 |11,249 |23
Sussex |13,861 |55 |3,377 |13 |1,735 |7 |3,672 |15 |268 |1 |2,164 |9 |25,077 |23
Thames Valleky |19,623 |49 |6,089 |15 |5,770 |14 |4,713 |12 |1,553 |4 |2,537 |6 |40,285 |22
Warwickshire |4,791 |50 |1,206 |13 |1,173 |12 |866 |9 |1,230 |13 |375 |4 |9,641 |24
West Mercia |11,776 |47 |3,555 |14 |2,684 |11 |717 |3 |4,419 |18 |2,081 |8 |25,232 |35
West Midlands |37,113 |41 |9,433 |10 |12,056 |13 |2,591 |3 |23,037 |25 |6,114 |7 |90,344 |31
West Yorkshire |35,269 |44 |8,864 |11 |11,461 |14 |3,131 |4 |15,280 |19 |5,658 |7 |79,663 |28
Wiltshire |8,798 |57 |2,300 |15 |1,846 |12 |264 |2 |530 |3 |1,722 |11 |15,460 |40
Dyfed-Powys |6,619 |54 |1,077 |9 |175 |1 |370 |3 |2,424 |20 |1,596 |13 |12,261 |50
Gwent |12,843 |73 |1,379 |8 |555 |3 |1,166 |7 |1,412 |8 |132 |1 |17,487 |47
North Wales |8,735 |56 |1,679 |11 |1,985 |13 |638 |4 |1,676 |11 |810 |5 |15,523 |36
South Wales |24,772 |55 |2,760 |6 |1,474 |3 |285 |1 |15,148 |34 |292 |1 |44,731 |29
England and Wales |690,627 |47 |166,848 |11 |177,929 |12 |84,261 |6 |245,554 |17 |114,272 |8 |1,479,491 |29
<1> Excluding offences of Criminal Damage value £20 and under.
Police Statistics
Mr. Sweeney : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each police force in England and Wales in 1981 and 1991 (a) the number of arrests, (b) the number of people charged, (c) the number
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of people who appeared in court, (d) the number of people found guilty and (e) the figure for those found guilty as a percentage of (a) , (b) and (c) .Mr. Jack : Information concerning arrests (for all offences), prosecutions and convictions (for indictable offences) 1981 and 1991 (which is provisional) is given in the table. Data on the number of people charged is not collected centrally.
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Table A
Number of arrests, prosecutions at magistrates' courts and total found guilty at all courts by police force area
England and Wales 1981
|Arrests<1> |Prosecutions at |Total found guilty|Percentage found |Percentage found
|magistrates' |at courts<2> |guilty to arrests |guilty to
|courts<2> |prosecutions
Police force area |Number |Number |Number |Per cent. |Per cent.
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Avon and Somerset |35,891 |12,758 |10,986 |31 |86
Bedfordshire |15,831 |5,315 |4,481 |28 |84
Cambridgeshire |17,757 |6,032 |5,428 |31 |90
Cheshire |18,511 |8,816 |8,065 |44 |91
Cleveland |24,565 |8,267 |7,715 |31 |93
Cumbria |12,434 |4,526 |4,095 |33 |90
Derbyshire |17,850 |7,550 |6,708 |38 |89
Devon and Cornwall |21,499 |9,878 |9,173 |43 |93
Dorset |13,068 |5,320 |4,719 |36 |89
Durham |16,616 |6,206 |5,710 |34 |92
Essex |31,138 |9,935 |8,931 |29 |90
Gloucestershire |11,758 |4,039 |3,829 |33 |95
Greater Manchester |102,118 |37,274 |33,966 |33 |91
Hampshire |42,551 |14,643 |13,078 |31 |89
Hertfordshire |19,092 |6,783 |6,150 |32 |91
Humberside |30,662 |10,633 |9,872 |32 |93
Kent |37,003 |10,492 |9,725 |26 |93
Lancashire |39,844 |15,561 |14,264 |36 |92
Leicestershire |21,202 |7,753 |7,100 |33 |92
Lincolnshire |13,203 |4,443 |4,031 |31 |91
London, City of |3,390 |1,139 |947 |28 |83
Merseyside |57,139 |22,183 |17,792 |31 |80
Metropolitan police district 340,809 97,898 85,262 25 87
Norfolk |10,155 |5,135 |4,764 |47 |93
Northamptonshire |15,151 |5,501 |4,821 |32 |88
Northumbria |62,121 |16,598 |14,659 |24 |88
North Yorkshire |11,829 |5,384 |4,645 |39 |86
Nottinghamshire |32,625 |11,483 |10,876 |33 |95
South Yorkshire |44,550 |13,879 |12,524 |28 |90
Staffordshire |31,833 |9,453 |8,168 |26 |86
Suffolk |12,452 |4,587 |3,735 |30 |81
Surrey |17,536 |4,388 |4,115 |23 |94
Sussex |35,294 |10,194 |9,615 |27 |94
Thames Valley |42,076 |13,411 |12,416 |30 |93
Warwickshire |7,050 |3,146 |2,784 |39 |88
West Mercia |22,692 |7,742 |7,268 |32 |94
West Midlands |87,376 |30,777 |26,820 |31 |87
West Yorkshire |56,702 |26,570 |23,177 |41 |87
Wiltshire |8,857 |4,057 |3,773 |43 |93
England |1,442,230 |489,749 |436,187 |30 |89
Dyfed-Powys |8,605 |2,942 |2,605 |30 |89
Gwent |15,955 |5,912 |5,223 |33 |88
North Wales |11,003 |5,664 |5,204 |47 |92
South Wales |35,795 |16,910 |14,162 |40
Wales |71,358 |31,428 |27,194 |38
England and Wales |1,513,588 |521,177 |463,381 |31 |89
<1>All offences.
<2>Indictable offences.
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Table B Number of arrests, prosecutions at magistrates' courts and total found guilty at all courts by police force area
England and Wales 1991<1> Number and percentage
Police force area |Arrests<2> |Prosecutions at |Total found guilty|Percentage found |Percentage found
|magistrates' |at all courts<3> |guilty to arrests |guilty to
|courts<3> |prosecutions
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Avon and Somerset |39,216 |11,955 |7,526 |19 |63
Bedfordshire |17,543 |4,467 |2,716 |15 |61
Cambridgeshire |17,699 |5,403 |3,664 |21 |68
Cheshire |29,684 |8,101 |5,937 |20 |73
Cleveland |28,061 |6,739 |4,336 |15 |64
Cumbria |21,275 |5,204 |3,939 |19 |76
Derbyshire |23,708 |7,828 |5,275 |22 |67
Devon and Cornwall |34,024 |10,032 |7,332 |22 |73
Dorset |18,382 |5,357 |3,637 |20 |68
Durham |25,125 |5,684 |3,487 |14 |61
Essex |40,100 |12,580 |7,835 |20 |62
Gloucestershire |17,020 |4,446 |2,990 |18 |67
Greater Manchester |116,916 |29,320 |22,832 |20 |78
Hampshire |62,330 |13,788 |9,544 |15 |69
Hertfordshire |23,191 |6,288 |4,039 |17 |64
Humberside |35,847 |7,941 |6,057 |17 |76
Kent |47,992 |7,176 |6,262 |13 |87
Lancashire |62,104 |14,005 |10,544 |17 |75
Leicestershire |26,417 |7,442 |5,041 |19 |68
Lincolnshire |22,680 |5,044 |3,466 |15 |69
London, City of |4,688 |1,120 |756 |16 |68
Merseyside |72,930 |23,311 |14,955 |21 |64
Metropolitan Police
District<4> |113,570 |69,148 |50,684 |45 |73
Norfolk |20,898 |5,579 |4,577 |22 |82
Northamptonshire |19,353 |5,425 |3,488 |18 |64
Northumbria |68,847 |15,787 |10,266 |15 |65
North Yorkshire |20,936 |6,276 |4,324 |21 |69
Nottinghamshire |46,487 |14,974 |9,292 |20 |62
South Yorkshire |45,722 |13,405 |9,636 |21 |72
Staffordshire |39,142 |10,386 |6,794 |17 |65
Suffolk |15,796 |4,994 |3,627 |23 |73
Surrey |19,940 |5,141 |3,451 |17 |67
Sussex |39,247 |12,261 |8,559 |22 |70
Thames Valley |59,458 |14,148 |9,203 |15 |65
Warwickshire |14,138 |2,859 |2,218 |16 |78
West Mercia |32,048 |8,186 |6,080 |19 |74
West Midlands |131,062 |33,082 |21,624 |16 |65
West Yorkshire |85,867 |22,946 |15,987 |19 |70
Wiltshire |13,670 |4,618 |3,280 |24 |71
England |1,573,113 |452,446 |315,280 |20 |70
Dyfed-Powys |13,466 |4,177 |2,752 |20 |66
Gwent |17,796 |5,146 |3,372 |19 |66
North Wales |24,338 |5,541 |4,421 |18 |80
South Wales |57,143 |18,931 |12,510 |22 |66
Wales |112,743 |33,795 |23,055 |20 |68
England and Wales |1,685,856 |486,241 |338,335 |20 |70
<1> Provisional
<2> All offences
<3> Indictable offences
<4> Notifiable offences
Fire Brigade (Marine Units)
Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which fire brigades in England and Wales undergo regular training for emergencies at sea ; and in which towns their specialist marine units are based.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 21 January 1993] : In addition to the training all firefighters receive for fighting fires on ships, 22 brigades in England and Wales maintain regular specialist training. Eleven brigades have specialist marine units.
Area |Brigade maintaining |Location of marine
|training |units
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Northern England |Tyne & Wear |Newcastle and Sunderland
|Cleveland |Middlebrough
|Lancashire |-
|Cheshire |-
|Humberside |-
|Merseyside |-
Wales |Dyfed |Milford Haven
|South Glamorgan |-
|West Glamorgan |-
|Gwynedd |-
Eastern England |Lincolnshire |-
|Cambridgeshire |Wisbech
|Suffolk |Felixstowe, Ipswich
|Norfolk |Great Yarmouth
|Essex |South Woodham Ferrers
|London |London
South and South- |Kent |Strood, Whitstable,
West England |Sheppey
|East Sussex |-
|Dorset |-
|Devon |Plymouth
|Cornwall |-
|Gloucestershire |inshore inflatable at Gloucester
Bail Support Schemes
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the location of all bail support schemes in operation in England and Wales ; and if he will indicate for each (a) the magistrates court areas served, (b) the local authority, (c) police force area in which it falls and (d) the number of people dealt with in each of the last three years ;
(2) if he will publish a table showing for each bail support scheme currently in operation (a) the number of
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