| Previous Section | Index | Home Page |
16 Mar 2005 : Column 318W—continued
Knives
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions for offences relating to knives and swords there have been in courts in (i) York, (ii) North Yorkshire police force area and (iii) England in each year since 1995. [220530]
Paul Goggins: The available information contained in the table gives the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for offences where a bladed article is mentioned in the offence description, at: York petty sessional area, North Yorkshire police force area and England 1995 to 2003.
n/a = Not applicable (These offences only became identifiable on the Home Office Court Proceedings database in 1996).
(37) These data are on the principal offence basis.
(38) Includes convictions at the Crown Court where York PSA was the committing court.
(39) Excludes prosecution and conviction data for West Mercia police force area due to coding errors.
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many knife-related assaults were recorded in 2004 in (a) the UK, (b) the North East and (c) Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East constituency. [220655]
Ms Blears: The information is not collected centrally. The number of assaults involving the use of a knife cannot be separately identified in the recorded crime statistics.
National Offender Management Service
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress his Department is making with the proposed introduction of the National Offender Management Service. [221250]
Paul Goggins:
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) became operational on 1 June 2004 with Martin Narey as Chief Executive. Since then a National Offender Manager and 10 Regional Offender Managers have been appointed. Together they are taking forward
16 Mar 2005 : Column 319W
the development of offender management in their areas, drawing on emerging good practice and what we have already learnt from the offender management pilots in the north-west. A re-design of NOMS headquarters, to reflect these changes, will be in place by 1 April 2005. Further work is also being taken forward to develop contestability and to determine what organisational design might best suit the service's future needs.
Offences
Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) arrested, (b) charged and (c) convicted of offences in the United Kingdom between 11 September 2001 and 31 December 2004. [219457]
Ms Blears: Within England and Wales information on arrests collected centrally is based on persons arrested for 'notifiable' offences. Data are collected for quarterly periods only and the figures in the table are therefore from October 2001.
Statistics on defendants charged in England and Wales are not collected centrally. The available information from the Home Office Court Proceedings database gives the number of defendants proceeded against at the magistrates and convicted at all courts. The figures given in the table are for notifiable offences from October 2001 onwards, for comparability with the arrest figures. Figures for 2004 will be available in autumn 2005.
Information for Scotland and Northern Ireland are a matter for, respectively, the Scottish Executive and the Northern Ireland Office.
n/a = not available
(40) Information up to December 2004 will be available in autumn 2005.
16 Mar 2005 : Column 320W
Parliamentary Questions
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the questions tabled by the hon. Member for Meriden on 10 January, references 207956 and 207957. [219541]
Ms Blears: The questions were answered on 23 February 2005, Official Report, columns 734–36W.
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will answer the question, reference 201648, tabled for answer on 1 December 2004. [219727]
Paul Goggins: I replied to the hon. Member on 9 March 2005, Official Report, column 1483W.
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will answer the question, reference 202240, tabled for answer on 6 December 2004. [219728]
Paul Goggins: I replied to the hon. Member on 9 March 2005, Official Report, column 1612W.
Parole
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of those eligible for parole were (a) granted parole and (b) broke the conditions of parole in each year since 1997. [221468]
Paul Goggins: The number of determinate cases considered by the Parole Board and recommended for parole in each year since 1997 has been published in table 10.4 of the publication "Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2003". The number of persons recalled from parole from determinate sentences has been published in table 10.8 of the same volume. A copy of the publication is available in the Library.
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners in (a) Essex and (b) England and Wales were eligible for parole in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [221469]
Paul Goggins: The number of determinate sentence parole reviews in (a) Essex prisons and (b) England and Wales, as recorded on the Prison Service IT system, is provided in the table.
(41) Including prisoners who declined consideration.
| Next Section | Index | Home Page |