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Crime Statistics
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of reported crimes in each London borough resulted in (a) an arrest and (b) a conviction in 2005; and if he will make a statement. [85936]
Mr. McNulty: Data collected centrally do not track individual offences to conclusion. Recorded offences are counted on the basis of crimes committed and are available by London borough. Arrests are counted on the basis of offenders by police force area only and convictions are counted on the basis of offenders by court.
Information on arrests and convictions is not available for 2005. The latest published data can be found at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/hosbpubs1.html
Jeff
Ennis: To ask the Secretary of State for the
Home Department how many (a) robberies and (b)
burglaries were reported in (i) Barnsley and (ii) Doncaster in each
of the last five years; and how many resulted in conviction.
[87635]
Mr. McNulty: The available information is given in the tables as follows. Recorded crime deals with offences while convictions data is based on offenders. For this reason the two data sets are not directly comparable.
| Table 1: Recorded offences of robbery and burglary in Barnsley and Doncaster—2001-2002 | ||||
| Barnsley | Doncaster | |||
| Robbery | Burglary | Robbery | Burglary | |
| Table 2: Recorded offences of burglary and robbery in Barnsley and Doncaster—2002-03 to 2005-06 | ||||
| Barnsley | Doncaster | |||
| Robbery | Burglary | Robbery | Burglary | |
| (1)
The data in this table takes account of the introduction of the
National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not
directly comparable with those for
2001-02 | ||||
| Table 3: Number of defendants convicted at all courts of Burglary and Robbery as a result of proceedings brought in Barnsley and Doncaster Local Criminal Justice areas, by committing court, 2000-04( 1,2) | |||||
| Offence / Committing court | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| (1)
These data are provided on the principal offence
basis (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces and courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. | |||||
Crown Prosecution Service
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to require the Crown Prosecution Service to contact the families of murder and manslaughter victims prior to a trial. [46419]
The Solicitor-General: I have been asked to reply.
In October 2005, the
Attorney-General issued the Prosecutors’ Pledge. The Pledge
commits prosecutors to 10 specific areas of service that will be
provided to victims, including the families of murder and manslaughter
victims and witnesses. These 10 pledges include: commitments to taking
into account the impact on the family when making a charging decision;
informing the family when a charge is withdrawn,
discontinued or substantially altered and, where practical, seeking the
views of the family when considering the acceptability of a
defendant’s pleas; encouraging communication between the family
and the prosecutor at court; objecting to inappropriate
cross-examination that may attack the character of a victim; on
conviction challenging defence mitigation which is derogatory to the
victim’s character, and explaining to the families the effect of
court judgments and the progress of any
appeals.
These services will be provided by prosecutors working with the police and assisted by joint police/Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Witness Care Units (WCUs). Day to day contact with the families will ordinarily be undertaken by the police family liaison officer. The role of the WCU in murder and manslaughter cases is to maintain communication between the prosecutor and the family liaison officer so as to ensure that the family is properly informed about the progress of the case and receives appropriate support throughout the criminal justice process.
Curfews
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners at (a) Chelmsford, (b) Coldingly, (c) Elmsley and (d) Rochester prison convicted of offences under section 18 of the Offences against the Persons Act 1861 were given home detention curfews in each of the last five years; how many prisoners at each institution were registered for home detention curfews in each year, broken down by grounds for rejection; and how many appeals by prisoners at each institution against rejection of applications for home detention curfews were granted in each year. [50369]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The following table shows (i) the number of prisoners released on Home Detention Curfew (HDC) and (ii) the number of prisoners who were sentenced to three months to less than four years and who had an HDC eligibility date in the periods specified.
The information on the number of prisoners who were sentenced to three months to less than four years and who had an HDC eligibility date in the periods specified, will include prisoners who are not eligible for release under the scheme, either because they are excluded by statute or are presumed unsuitable as a matter of policy. Other prisoners will opt-out of being assessed for release on HDC, or will turned down following risk assessment. As prisoners may move between prisons these figures should be used as broad estimates.
The offences recorded on the central prison IT system do not relate to offences under specific pieces of legislation. The information in the table includes those prisoners recorded with offences of wounding (inflicting GBH) and assault with intent to cause GBH.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and so can be used for purposes of looking at the relative magnitude of components.
All figures have been rounded to the nearest five.
Information on the reasons for refusal of individual applications, and the outcome of appeals, could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
| Prisoners with sentences of three months to less than four years with an HDC eligibility date in the periods specified, and number released on HDC: wounding (inflicting GBH) and assault with intent to cause GBH | ||
| Prisoners with sentences of three months to less than four years with an HDC eligibility date in the period | Number released on HDC | |
| Notes: ‘—’ Indicates nil or less than three. - nil or less than 3 These statistics are based on information recorded on the central Prison Service IT system at week ending 16 July 2006, Further updates and amendments may be made to records on this system in future resulting in revised figures. These figures have been rounded to the nearest five. | ||
Departmental Staff
Mr. Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many civil servants at grade 5 or above have been disciplined over failures in the UK immigration system since 1 January; and if he will make a statement. [73891]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 5 June 2006]: Since January, there has been no disciplinary action against any member of the senior civil service in relation to the work of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.
In setting up the Immigration and Nationality Directorate as an Executive agency of the Home Office we will establish stronger accountability arrangements and set demanding targets for performance and delivery.
Dogs
Mr. Wills: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take the necessary steps to record and publish the number of dogs that (a) go missing and (b) are stolen in each year in England and Wales. [87761]
Mr. McNulty: There are currently no plans to separately identify from the recorded crime statistics collected by the Home Office the number of dogs stolen. Information on dogs reported missing is not collected by the Home Office.
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