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In reading the data supplied in the table, the following factors should be considered:

Road Traffic Act

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) males and (b) females were (i) prosecuted and (ii) convicted in (A) Southend, (B) Essex, (C) Hertfordshire and (D) England and Wales of offences under sections (1) 16 and (2) 17 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 in each of the last five years for which figures are available, broken down by age group. [75630]

Mr. Coaker: The table shows numbers of prosecutions and convictions for offences under section
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16 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 over the five year period from 2000 to 2004. The offences under section 17 of the same act form part of a group of miscellaneous motoring offences in the data held by the
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Office for Criminal Justice Reform. It is not possible to separate these offences from others within the group and therefore no separate data can be provided. Data for 2005 will be available in the autumn of 2006.

Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts, by sex and age group under section 16 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 in England and Wales, 2000 to 2004( 1)
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Age Proceeded against Found guilty Proceeded against Found guilty Proceeded against Found guilty Proceeded against Found guilty Proceeded against Found guilty

10-11

Male

1

1

1

1

2

2

Female

Total

1

1

1

1

2

2

12-14

Male

17

15

22

17

31

21

20

13

24

14

Female

4

2

2

2

2

2

Total

21

17

22

17

33

23

20

13

26

16

15-17

Male

106

91

129

105

112

86

116

88

133

105

Female

5

4

9

8

2

2

7

6

6

1

Total

111

95

138

113

114

8

123

94

139

106

18-20

Male

84

74

78

67

71

59

72

62

56

52

Female

8

7

1

1

7

5

6

5

1

1

Total

92

81

79

68

78

64

78

67

57

53

21 and over

Male

76

60

76

61

57

43

67

54

140

120

Female

5

4

9

8

5

5

8

6

4

4

Total

81

64

85

69

62

48

75

60

144

124

All ages

Male

283

240

306

251

272

210

277

219

353

291

Female

22

17

19

17

16

14

21

17

13

8

Total

305

257

325

268

288

224

298

236

366

299

(1 )These data are on the principal offence basis.
Source:
RDS—Office for Criminal Justice Reform.

Security Industry Authority

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average wait for a licence issued by the Security Industry Authority has been since licensing was introduced. [62301]

Mr. Coaker: The SIA do not calculate the average processing times for applications. Some, such as those involving overseas criminal records checks, unavoidably take a considerable time. The SIA have a published target of processing 80 per cent. of all applications within six weeks, measured from the date that a properly completed application enters the processing system to the date that a licence is issued. From April 2004 until August 2005 the SIA processed 62 per cent. within six weeks and 88 per cent. within nine weeks. Since September 2005, there has been a backlog of applications that have been waiting to enter the system. These have added an additional time of between two and four weeks to the process, so it is now taking up to 10 weeks to process most applications.


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