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Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Commencement No 6) Order 1999, SI 1999/3426.
Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Commencement No 7) Order 2000, SI 2000/924.
Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Commencement No 8) Order 2000, SI 2000/3283.
Crime Reduction Initiatives
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what vehicle crime reduction initiatives the Home Office has participated in since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [88644]
Mr. McNulty: The Home Office established the Vehicle Crime Reduction Action Team (VCRAT) in September 1998 to develop and oversee implementation of a strategy to reduce vehicle crime. The strategy was published in 1999 and contributed to the reduction of 1,780,000 incidents of vehicle crime (51 per cent.) estimated by the British Crime Survey between 1997 and interviews in 2005-06. The main initiatives the Home Office has participated in since 1997 have included: supporting improved vehicle security through publication of security guidance documents aimed at manufacturers and publication of Car and Bike Theft Indices; spreading good practice, for example through the vehicle crime toolkit on the website www.crimereduction.gov.uk; improving car park security through support for the Safer Parking Scheme (owned by the Association of Chief Police Officers and managed by the British Parking Association).
This includes financial support amounting to £1,409,000 over the period 2001-02 to 2005-06; making the motor salvage industry subject to statutory regulation under powers contained in the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001; and raising motorists’ awareness of the steps they can take to prevent themselves becoming victims of car crime through national communications campaigns (with funding of £28.6 million over the period 1999-2000 to 2005-06) and other communications initiatives.
Crime Statistics
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded in (a) England and Wales, (b) Eastleigh borough, (c) Hampshire, (d) Portsmouth and (e) Southampton involving (i) knives, (ii) guns and (iii) other offensive weapons in each year since 1995. [84662]
Mr. Coaker: Available data for firearms offences (excluding air weapons) relate only to police force area. Information for England and Wales and Hampshire is given in the following tables.
Although the homicide figures record where a sharp or blunt instrument has been used, it is not possible to identify from recorded crime statistics whether other crimes involve the use of a knife or other offensive weapon.
The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in April 2002. Because of this figures before and after that date are not directly comparable.
| Table (A): Crimes recorded by the police in which firearms (excluding air weapons ) were reported to have been used,1995 to 2001-02 | ||
| England and Wales | Hampshire | |
| (1) There was a change in counting rules for recorded crime on 1 April 1998. (2) Numbers of some recorded crimes may have been inflated by some police forces implementing the principles of the National Crime Recording Standard before 1 April 2002. | ||
| Table (B): Crimes recorded by the police in which firearms (excluding air weapons) were reported to have been used, 2002-03 to 2004-05 | ||
| England and Wales | Hampshire | |
| (1) The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in April 2002. Because of this figures before and after that date are not directly comparable. | ||
Mr. Kemp: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded in each year since 1997 in (a) Houghton and Washington East constituency and (b) the Sunderland city council area. [87362]
Mr. McNulty: Information for the Houghton and Washington East constituency is not available centrally. The available information relates to the Sunderland Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) area and is given in the tables. Data were collected at CDRP level for six key offences only for 1999 and for all crime from 2000-01.
| Table 1: Recorded offences in the Sunderland Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership area, 1999-2000 to 2001-02 | |
| Number of offences | |
| n/a = not available | |
| Table 2: Recorded offences in the Sunderland Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership area, 2002-03 to 2005-06 | |
| Number of offences | |
| Note: The data in this table take account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years. | |
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) burglaries and (b) robberies there were in Brent in each year since 1997. [87711]
Mr. McNulty: Brent is a Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) area. Data at CDRP level are only available from 1999-2000 and the available information is given in the following tables.
| Table 1: Recorded offences of burglary and robbery in Brent, 1999-2000 to 2001-02 | ||
| Burglary | Robbery | |
| Notes: 1 . Figures for 1999-2000 are for domestic burglaries only. 2. Expanded offence coverage and revised counting rules came into effect on 1 April 1998. The figures in this table are therefore not directly comparable with those for earlier years. | ||
| Table 2: Recorded offences of burglary and robbery in Brent, 2002-03 to 2005-06 | ||
| Burglary | Robbery | |
| Note: The data in this table take account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years. | ||
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) arrests, (b) charges and (c) convictions for (i) sexual offences and (ii) theft of cars there have been in each of the last five years. [88655]
Mr. McNulty: Information requested on arrests for sexual offences can be found in the annual Home Office Statistical Bulletin, Arrests for Recorded Crime (notifiable offences) and the Operation of Certain Police Powers under PACE, England and Wales—Table AA refers. Copies are available from the Library.
The information requested on arrests for theft of cars is not available centrally. Information on arrests is
based on persons arrested for recorded crime “notifiable” offences by main offence group (i.e. theft and handling stolen goods, sexual offences, violence against the person and burglary etc) and therefore does not identify individual offences.
Data on charges are not held centrally. However data from the Court Proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform on the number of defendants prosecuted at magistrates court, and convicted of (i) sexual and (ii) theft of cars offences in England and Wales, 2000 to 2004, are contained in the following table.
2004 data show the inclusion of a new list of offences brought under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which came into effect on 1 May 2004.
Statistics for 2005 court proceedings will be available in the autumn of 2006.
| Number of defendants prosecuted at magistrates court and found guilty at all courts for sexual offences( 1) , England and Wales, 2000 to 2004( 2, 3) | ||
| Prosecuted | Guilty | |
| (1) This includes Sexual Offences Act 1956, Mental Health Act 1959, Sexual Offences Act 2003, Offences Against the Person Act 1861 s.57, Sex Offenders Act 1997 s.3(1) (a) and (b), Indecency with Children Act 1960 s.1. (2 )These data are provided on the principal offence basis. (3) 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 police forces. 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. (4 )2004 data show the inclusion of a new list of offences brought under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which came into effect on 1 May 2004. Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform. | ||
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences have been brought to justice in each of the last five years. [88659]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information requested is contained in Chapter 5 of “Criminal Statistics 2004” which can be found at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb1905.pdf
Table 5.1 on page 96 gives figures for the number of offences brought to justice in England and Wales between 1998/99 and 2004/05. The Departmental Report for 2005-06 has just been published, please use the following link; http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/annual-report-06.pdf?view=Binary
The provisional offences brought to justice figures for 2005 can be found on page 29, and reference is also made on pages 28, 75 and 94.
Figures for 2005-06 will be published in the autumn of 2006.
Lynne Featherstone: (1) To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (1) how many convictions for (a) murder, (b) rape, (c) sexual assault, (d) manslaughter and (e) robbery have been (i) overturned, (ii) reduced and (iii) increased after appeal in each of the last five years; [88500]
(2) how many convictions for (a) murder, (b) rape, (c) sexual assault, (d) manslaughter and (e) robbery have been overturned in the last three years; and in how many cases of each type the sentence was reduced. [88665]
Ms Harman: I have been asked to reply.
The following table sets out, for the past five years, the number of conviction appeals allowed, sentence appeals allowed and references by the Attorney General where the Court of Appeal Criminal Division decided to increase the sentence following review.
All figures relate to cases where the named offence (including inchoate offences) was the main offence under consideration by the Court. However, some results may reflect circumstances where the court also reviewed other offences committed by the same applicant.
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