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Offence description	Statute	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Essex
Breeding or breeding from a fighting dog	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(2)(a)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Selling, exchanging, offering, advertising or exposing for sale a fighting dog.	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(2)(b)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Giving or offering to give a fighting dog	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(2)(c)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Allowing a fighting dog to be in a public place without a muzzle or a lead.	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(2)(d)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Abandoning, or allowing to stray, a fighting dog	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(2)(e)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Possession, without exemption, of a Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa or other designated fighting dog	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(3)	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Owner or person in charge allowing dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place, no injury being caused	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 3( 1 )	8	16	12	7	17	9	4
Owner or person in charge allowing dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place injuring any person	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 3(1)	15	14	8	9	18	23	8
Owner or person in charge allowing dog to enter a non- public place causing reasonable apprehension of injury to a person	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 3(3)	1	1	0	0	0	2	0
Owner or person in charge allowing dog to enter a non-public place and injure any person	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 3(3)	3	4	6	5	3	1	1
Failing to give up a dog for destruction or having custody of a dog while disqualified	Badgers (further protection) Act 1991 Sec. 1. Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 4(8), Protection of Badgers Act 1992 Sec. 13.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total		27	35	26	21	40	35	13
(1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Offence codes for Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 were introduced to the court proceeding database from 1 January 1992. Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform

Dyfed Powys Police

Mr. Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the occasions on which Dyfed Powys Police were inspected by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary between 1992 and 2005; and if he will place copies of the reports in the Library. [75705]

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Mr. McNulty [holding answer 7 June 2006]: Details of when Dyfed Powys were inspected by HMIC are given in the table. The majority of reports between 1998 and 2005 can be found on the HMIC website at:

www.inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary Dyfed Powys Police
Date inspected
1992	HMIC Inspection
1993	HMIC Inspection
1994	HMIC Inspection
1995	HMIC Inspection
1996-97	HMIC Inspection
1997-98	HMIC Inspection
1998-99	HMIC Inspection
2001-02	HMIC Inspection
2002	Pembrokeshire BCU Inspection
2003	BVRI Public Order
2004	HMIC Inspection
2004	Ceredigion BCU Inspection
2004	BVRI Intelligence
2004	BVRI Criminal Justice
2005	HMIC Inspection
2005	Torefan BCU Inspection
2005	Professional Standards Inspection
2006	Race Equality Inspection

Foreign Nationals (Northern Ireland)

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures are in place to provide (a) protection and (b) assistance to foreign nationals working in Northern Ireland, with particular reference to access to entitlements. [74681]

Mr. Byrne: Foreign nationals in Northern Ireland, as elsewhere in the UK, will generally be entitled to assistance and protection from the consular authorities of their own country, in addition, in many cases, to those sources of assistance which are also available to British citizens, including the police. As to entitlements to social security benefits, in general these are not available to persons who are subject to immigration control, while EU nationals in general enjoy rights to equal treatment under community law.

Graffiti

Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions for graffiti crime there have been in each year since 1997. [75363]

Mr. Sutcliffe: It is not possible to distinguish offences of graffiti from other types of criminal damage in the court proceedings data held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform as the circumstances of individual offences are not collected centrally.

House Burglaries

David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many house burglaries
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were reported in 2005; and how many reports subsequently led to a conviction. [75393]

Mr. McNulty: There were 304,400 recorded offences of domestic burglary in England and Wales in 2005. It is not possible to identify how many of these led to a conviction. This is because recorded crime deals with offences and court proceedings deal with defendants and the two data sets cannot be directly compared.

Individual Support Orders

Ann Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individual support orders attached to anti-social behaviour orders have been given at magistrates courts in each magistrates court area. [74523]

Mr. McNulty [holding answer 8 June 2006]: The available information is given in the table.

Number of individual support orders( 1) given at magistrates courts in addition to an ASBO, as reported to the Home Office, where restrictions are imposed: Criminal Justice System areas( 2 ) from 1 May 2004 to 30 September 2005—England and Wales
CJS Area( 2)	Individual support orders issued
Durham	2
GLMCA	4
Gloucestershire	1
Greater Manchester	4
Gwent	1
Hampshire	1
Humberside	1
Kent	1
Norfolk	8
Northumbria	1
Nottinghamshire	4
West Midlands	1
West Yorkshire	2
Total	31
(1) Available at magistrates courts only for juveniles (10 to 17) with ASBOs issued on application. Commencement date 1 May 2004. (2 )As from 1 April 2005. (On the creation of Her Majesty's Courts Service (HMCS)) CJS Areas superseded MCC areas.

Knife Crimes

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been convicted of carrying a knife in a public place in each of the last five years. [75402]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The table shows the number of convictions in England and Wales for carrying a knife in a public place for the years 2000 to 2004. Data for 2005 will be available in autumn 2006.

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Number of offenders found guilty at all courts of carrying of knives—England and Wales, 2000-04( 1)
	Offence description
	Having an article with blade or point in public place	Having an article with blade or point on school premises( 2)
2000	3,511	18
2001	4,299	23
2002	5,281	19
2003	5,308	29
2004	5,784	37
(1) These data are provided on the principal offence basis. (2) Excludes data provided by West Mercia police force area. Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform

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