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Code	Offence description	Statute	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
821	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)	2	1	5	6	3	—	5
822	Owner or person in charge allowing dog to enter a non-public place and injure any person	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 3(3)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
11112	Breeding or breeding from a fighting dog	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(2)(a)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
11113	Selling, exchanging, offering, advertising or exposing for sale a fighting dog	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(2)(b)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
11114	Giving or offering to give a fighting dog	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(2)(c)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
11115	Allowing a fighting dog to be in a public place without a muzzle or a lead	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(2)(d)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
11116	Abandoning, or allowing to stray, a fighting dog	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(2)(e)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
11117	Possession, without exemption, of a Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa or other designated fighting dog	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 1(3)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
11118	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)	2	3	1	—	2	3	2
11119	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)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
11120	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	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
(1) These data are on the principal offence basis. Source: RDS — Office for Criminal Justice Reform.

Criminal Justice and Court Services Act

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the operation of section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000; and what recent representations he has received about the operation of this (a) section and (b) Act. [71014]

Mr. Coaker: Section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (CJCS) inserted new provisions in section 38 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE). These provisions enable police custody officers to detain a person after charge for the purposes of taking a sample (of urine or other non-intimate sample) to test for the presence of specified Class A drugs, subject to conditions and procedures set out in sections 63B and 63C of PACE .

The Drugs Act 2005 (section 7 and paragraphs 1-4 of Schedule 1) subsequently amended section 63B and other sections of PACE to allow for the testing of adults for specified Class A drugs on arrest while retaining the powers for testing on charge in the case of adults and the under eighteens (where applicable). Where a person has tested positive under these powers, section 9 of the Drugs Act introduced a new power for the police to require adults to attend an assessment of their drug use or face a criminal sanction.

This legislation forms a core part of the Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) and aims to identify problematic drug misusers at the earliest opportunity of their contact with the criminal justice system and get them into drug treatment and other support. Currently, drug testing operates within the 71 crime partnership areas across England and Wales with high levels of acquisitive crime, the so called ‘DIP intensive areas’.

The volume of tests conducted under this legislation continues to grow. Some 17, 400 adult drug tests were carried out in April 2006, more than three times the number in April 2005.

The Home Office has received no specific recent representations about the operation of section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 although a number of police forces have made enquiries about introducing drug testing in their areas.

Criminal Records Bureau

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Criminal Records Bureau disclosure applications were received in each of the last 12 months; how many were issued; and what the average length of time taken to issue a disclosure was in each month. [81688]

Joan Ryan: The total number of disclosure applications received and disclosures issued by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) in the last 12 months is contained in table 1.

Information on the average length of time taken to process the checks during these periods is not available in the format requested. The CRB operates to a set of a Published Service Standards (PSS) which for the majority of the period was to publish 93 per cent. of Standard Disclosures within two weeks and 90 per cent. of Enhanced Disclosures within four weeks. The monthly performance measured against the PSS is as shown in tables 2 and 3.

The four week target for Enhanced Disclosures is made up of two distinct parts. The CRB is required to process 90 per cent. of valid Enhanced Disclosure applications to the police within 10 days, with the police forces required to process 95 per cent. of the checks within a further 14 days. The CRB consistently exceeded their target in 2005-06 and, for May 2006, processed 97.4 per cent. of applications to the police within 10 days. The CRB and the police forces are working together to reduce police completion times in line with the overall service standard objectives.

The CRB recently published its Five-Year Strategy and Business Plan 2006-07 and the PSS for the financial year 2006-07 for Standard Disclosures is 90 per cent. within 10 days and for Enhanced Disclosures 90 per cent. within 28 days. The shortening of the Standard Disclosure PSS is the result of the effectiveness of the CRB’s internal processes.

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Table 1
Month	Total net receipts	Total disclosures issued
2005
June	236,602	230,251
July	241,901	215,378
August	238,045	220,375
September	242,993	215,695
October	262,796	252,608
November	245,555	272,507
December	198,791	231,659
2006
January	209,361	217,764
February	247,591	234,556
March	294,303	277,610
April	207,265	217,764
May	280,171	242,911
Total	2,905,374	2,829,078

Table 2
Standard disclosures	Total	Volume within PSS	PSS target (percentage)	PSS achieved (percentage)
2005
June	27,205	26,851	(1)93.0	98.7
July	25,833	25,601	(1)93.0	99.1
August	23,966	23,942	(1)93.0	99.9
September	25,117	25,092	(1)93.0	99.9
October	27,388	27,306	(1)93.0	99.7
November	26,249	26,092	(1)93.0	99.4
December	23,066	23,043	(1)93.0	99.9
2006
January	23,055	22,963	(1)93.0	99.6
February	28,511	28,454	(1)93.0	99.8
March	36,436	36,363	(1)93.0	99.8
April	24,719	24,645	(2)90.0	98.7
May	34,401	34,310	(2)90.0	97.4
June 2005 to May 2006	325,946	324,661	93.0/90.0	99.3
(1) Percentage in 14 days. (2) Percentage in 10 days.

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