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Drink-driving Offences

John Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been prosecuted for drink-driving offences in the county of Durham in the last three years. [63369]

Fiona Mactaggart: Data from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform on the number of defendants prosecuted against in Durham for drink-driving offences from 2002 to 2004 are provided in the following table.

Data for 2005 will be available in the autumn of 2006.
Defendants prosecuted at magistrates courts in Durham police force area for offences relating to drink-driving from 2002 to 2004(77)

Number
Offence description200220032004
Causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs(78)201
Driving or attempting to drive a motor vehicle while unfit through drink or drugs (impairment) only to be used where it is unclear whether it is drink or drugs—see 803/09 or 803/1 0(79)292615
Driving or attempting to drive a motor vehicle while having a breath, blood or urine alcohol concentration in excess of the prescribed limit(80)917929994
Driving or attempting to drive a motor vehicle and failing to without reasonable excuse provide a specimen for a laboratory test or two specimens for analysis of breath(81)677874
Being in charge of a mechanically propelled vehicle while unfit to drive through drink or drugs (impairment) only to be used where it is unclear whether it is drink or drugs—see 803/11 or 803/12(82)482
In charge of a motor vehicle while having a breath, blood or urine alcohol concentration in excess of the prescribed limit(83)433229
In charge of a motor vehicle and failing without reasonable excuse to provide a specimen for a laboratory test or two specimens for analysis of breath(84)21011
Failing without reasonable excuse to provide a specimen of breath for a preliminary test(85)513
Failing to allow specimen of blood to be subjected to laboratory test(77) 0 000
Driving or attempting to drive a motor vehicle while unfit through drink or drugs (impairment) Drink(77)(5509060078)001
Being in charge of a mechanically propelled vehicle while unfit to drive through drink or drugs (impairment) Drink(77)(5509060078)003
Being in charge of a mechanically propelled vehicle while unfit to drive through drink or drugs (impairment) Drugs(77)(5509060078)002


(77) These data are provided on the principal offence basis.
(78) Road Traffic Act 1988 S.3A added by Road Traffic Act 1991 S.3 and amended by Criminal Justice Act 2003 S.285.
(79) Road Traffic Act 1988 S.4(1).
(80) Road Traffic Act 1988 Sec 5(1)(a).
(81) Road Traffic Act 1988 Sec 7(6).
(82) Road Traffic Act 1988 S.4(2).
(83) Road Traffic Act 1988 Sec 5(1)(b).
(84) Road Traffic Act 1988 Sec 7(6).
(85) Road Traffic Act 1988 Sec 6(6).
(86)Road Traffic Act 1988 S.7A as added by Police Reform Act 2002 S.56, S.57. Transport and Works Act 1992 S.31A as added by Police Reform Act 2002 S.58(4).
(87) Road Traffic Act 1988 S.4(2).
(88) Road Traffic Act 1988 S.4{2).
(89)Road Traffic Act 1988 S.4(2).



 
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Drugs

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children have been (a) arrested for and (b) convicted of (i) cocaine possession and (ii) the sale of cocaine in the last 12 months. [63399]

Hazel Blears: Arrest data for drug offences by drug type are not collected centrally. The available information relates to the number of persons aged 17 and under found guilty or cautioned under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 of unlawful possession, unlawful supply and possession with intent to supply offences involving cocaine during 2004.
Persons aged 17 and under found guilty or cautioned for cocaine offences in England and Wales, 2004

Type of offence(91)CautionedFound guilty
Unlawful possession5685
Unlawful supply317
Possession with intent to supply451


(91) Includes reprimands and warnings for under 17s.


Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the annual cost of (a) a prison place and (b) a residential drug rehabilitation place was in the last period for which figures are available. [50070]

Fiona Mactaggart [holding answer 16 February 2006]: The average cost of a prison place in 2004–05 was
 
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£40,992. This is calculated including all expenditure incurred by HMPS divided by the number of prison places.

The Home Office does not provide residential drug treatment places. The most recent data on charges for residential drug treatment provided by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse Bedvacs service" is as follows:
£
Average weekly674.10
Median weekly449.00

Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) arrests, (b) convictions and (c) cautions there were for offences relating to (i) the possession and (ii) dealing in class (A) A, (B) B and (C) C drugs in (1) Cambridgeshire police authority area and (2) the Northern division of the Cambridgeshire constabulary in each year since 1997. [53716]

Paul Goggins: Arrest data for types of drug offences by class of drug are not collected centrally. The available information relates to the number of persons found guilty and cautioned under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. Figures for Cambridgeshire are shown in the tables.

Cannabis was reclassified as a class C drug in January 2004. For the purpose of this analysis, cannabis offenders are included within the class C figures for the entire period in question.
 
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Table 1: Persons found guilty for drug possession and dealing(92) offences by class type(93), Cambridgeshire, by year

Class A
Class B
Class C
PossessionDealingPossessionDealingPossessionDealing
19978819783232679
199812746863131764
199915845863129476
200011849681120656
200116073481023737
20021578133823737
2003123178321124333
200411477288(94)20531


(92) Offences of unlawful supply and possession with intent to supply unlawfully.
(93) Cannabis was reclassified to a class C drug in January 2004. For the purposes of this exercise, offences involving cannabis are considered within class C for the period under consideration.
(94) Police formal ('street') warnings for cannabis possession were introduced in April 2004.



Table 2: Persons cautioned for drug possession and dealing(95) offences by class type(96), Cambridgeshire, by year

Class A
Class BClass C
PossessionDealingPossessionDealingPossessionDealing
199719304154
199827620056311
199940117049414
2000300824146
20014721403673
20027131403302
2003480822854
2004590161(97)2219


(95) Offences of unlawful supply and possession with intent to supply unlawfully.
(96) Cannabis was reclassified to a class C drug in January 2004. For the purposes of this exercise, offences involving cannabis are considered within class C for the period under consideration.
(97) Excludes police formal ('street') warnings for cannabis possession, introduced in April 2004.


Illegal Immigrants

Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal immigrants have been (a) detained and (b) arrested by the police in the last 12 months, broken down by police force area. [62713]

Hazel Blears: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2006, Official Report, column 73W, on illegal immigration, what the reasons were for the changes between 2003 and 2005. [63136]

Mr. McNulty: The Immigration Service has deployed a range of initiatives to deter and detect illegal entry to the UK including moving controls overseas, enhancing juxtaposed controls in Paris, Lille, Brussels and Calais, deploying New Detection Technology in France and Belgium, enhanced visa regimes, the UK's network of Airline Liaison Officers and close co-operation with carriers, port authorities and our EU colleagues.


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