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Private Prosecutions

Mr. Amess: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many private prosecutions were undertaken in (a) Southend-on-Sea, (b) Essex and (c) England and Wales in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; how many (i) succeeded
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and (ii) failed in each year; and how many were stopped on the grounds of (A) public interest and (B) insufficient evidence in each year. [87215]

Ms Harman: Information about the number of private prosecutions is not collected and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost to the Department.

Rescheduled Court Cases

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many court cases in each London court had to be rescheduled
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because the defendant failed (a) to attend and (b) to bring the appropriate documentation in each of the last five years. [85955]

Ms Harman: The following tables show the number of trials held in London which had to be rescheduled (became ineffective) because the defendant did not attend. Separate tables are provided for cases dealt with in the magistrates courts where data are only available for Local Justice Areas, and for each of the Crown courts. Information on the number of cases where the defendant failed to bring the appropriate documentation is not collected and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Ineffective trials due to defendant non-attendance in the Crown court( 1)
Crown court centre	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Blackfriars	25	35	19	24	19
Central criminal court	7	6	2	1	2
Croydon	47	32	37	17	10
Harrow	32	29	27	15	17
Inner London Sessions House	38	53	34	35	31
Isleworth	35	43	42	30	23
Kingston upon Thames	18	31	37	25	22
Middlesex Guildhall	29	32	31	11	5
Snaresbrook	73	66	72	74	49
Southwark	40	64	38	15	30
Wood Green	36	49	34	16	13
Woolwich	20	19	20	13	11
Total	400	459	393	276	232
(1 )Does not include defendant absence through illness or non-production from prison

Ineffective trials due to defendants non attendance in each Local Justice Area in the London magistrates court region( 1)
	Financial year
	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Barking	34	47	17
Barnet	63	49	52
Bexley	37	44	10
Brent	62	64	55
Bromley	46	51	12
City of London	40	30	31
Croydon	171	130	23
Ealing	72	63	29
East Central	91	176	145
Enfield	36	60	24
Haringey	61	88	43
Harrow	75	35	23
Havering	27	32	13
Hillingdon	193	85	60
Hounslow	59	45	18
Kingston upon Thames	19	16	5
North Westminster	24	44	25
Redbridge	47	75	31
Richmond upon Thames	36	14	12
South Central	206	193	89
South Eastern	82	90	56
South Western	69	55	40
South Westminster	255	176	86
Stratford	111	124	65
Sutton	42	21	8
Thames	158	182	113
Waltham Forest	80	44	23
West London	196	113	57
Wimbledon	28	8	6
Total	2,420	2,154	1,171
(1 )Does not include defendant absence through illness or non-production from prison.

Residential Property Tribunal

Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what the fee is for a property owner to appeal a Final Empty Dwelling Management Order to a Residential Property Tribunal. [86843]

Vera Baird: The fee would be £150.

Special Advocates

Keith Vaz: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many statements have been made by victims’ special advocates in (a) Cardiff, (b) Manchester, (c) Birmingham and (d) London. [84526]

Ms Harman: No family impact statements have yet been made in any of the five pilot courts. The scheme applies to cases where a charge of murder or manslaughter is brought on or after 24 April 2006.

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Statutory Instruments

Mr. Amess: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs on what occasions a statutory instrument sponsored by her Department has been reported by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments as defective since October 2005. [85182]

Ms Harman: Reports from the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments contain full details of the statutory instruments which they have reported. The Department has provided information for the Joint Committee on Statutory Instrument’s Departmental Returns report for 2005. This is due to be published shortly. In 2006 there have been three statutory instruments reported as defective.

Culture, Media and Sport

Advertising Campaigns

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what advertising campaigns the Department has run between 2000 and June 2004; and what the (a) date and (b) cost was of each. [87068]

Mr. Lammy: The Department had a zero spend on advertising between 2000 and 2002. The expenditure on advertising from 2003 has been as follows.

	Spend (£)
2003-04	(1)20,987
2004-05	(1)37,085
(1 )BBC Charter

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