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Number of offences
Offence group	Offence type	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
1	Causing death or bodily harm	8	16	12	10	10	17
2	Dangerous driving	148	114	148	150	151	120
3	Driving etc. after consuming alcohol or taking drugs	1,022	882	880	928	1,019	1,159
4	Careless driving	1,064	1,127	915	688	733	663
5	Accident offences	292	295	256	235	299	289
6	Unauthorised taking or theft of motor vehicle	620	497	377	529	579	422
7	Driving licence related offences	3,079	3,108	2,721	3,032	3,533	3,688
9	Vehicle insurance offences	4,351	4,158	3,528	4,186	4,802	4,534
10	Vehicle registration and excise licence offences	283	118	149	148	220	875
11	Work record and employment offences	178	146	89	245	19	35
12	Operator’s licence offences	16	18	24	15	4	5
13	Vehicle test offences	1,863	2,131	2,373	2,874	3,154	2,859
14	Fraud, forgery etc., associated with vehicle or driver records	157	103	87	122	74	74
15	Vehicle or part in dangerous condition	508	396	272	283	303	275
16	Speed limit offences	17,396	10,402	7,583	15,998	29,817	21,930
17	Motorway offences (other than speeding)	157	65	36	14	21	22
18	Neglect of traffic directions	1,917	1,693	2,087	1,832	1,797	2,712
19	Neglect of pedestrian rights	172	122	147	129	111	81
20	Obstruction, waiting and parking offences	30,600	32,875	33,498	32,451	22,648	9,891
21	Lighting offences	363	283	232	257	207	317
22	Noise offences	51	37	21	36	25	32
23	Load offence	226	194	51	75	46	64
24	Offences peculiar to motor cycles	40	53	50	46	30	48
25	Miscellaneous motoring offences	300,519	2,268	1,805	1,585	2,389	2,963
	Total all offences	365,030	61,101	57,341	65,868	71,991	53,075
(1) Consists of court proceedings, written warnings, fixed penalties and vehicle defect rectification scheme notices complied with. (2) Findings of guilt at all courts data substituted for court proceedings in the tables from 1993 to 1997 as court proceedings data not available. Notes: 1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings, in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. Work is under way to ensure that the magistrates courts’ case management system currently being implemented by the Department for Constitutional Affairs reports all motoring offences to the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. This will enable more complete figures to be disseminated. 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 courts 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. Source: Home Office publication “Offences relating to motor vehicles, England and Wales, Supplementary tables”.

Mr. David Robers

Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the evidence of Mr. David Roberts of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 16 May 2006 represents departmental policy. [72798]

Mr. Byrne: Since 1995, Governments have made clear that by its very nature illegal immigration is impossible to quantify precisely, and that remains the case. Mr. Roberts was therefore correct to say that he could not know the actual figure.

Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements

David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offenders supervised under multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) have subsequently been returned to prison before the end of their licence period in the past five years; and how many offenders are being supervised under MAPPA. [97656]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Data on returns to prison are not currently collected in respect of the whole MAPPA population. Recall information in regard to offenders managed at MAPPA level two and three, i.e. those requiring multi-agency meetings is available on the website at http://www.probation.homeoffice.gov.uk/output/page30.asp

Muslim Groups

David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) representatives of his Department have held with (i) the Muslim Council of Britain, (ii) the Muslim Association of Britain and (iii) Hizb-ut-Tehrir in the last 12 months. [91537]

Mr. Byrne: The Home Secretary has met with the Muslim Council of Britain on three occasions in the past 12 months: 3 May 2006, 12 September 2006 and 11 October 2006. He has not met with representatives of the Muslim Association of Britain or Hizb-Ut-Tehrir in the past 12 months.

No other Home Office Ministers have held meetings with the groups.

Non-emergency Telephone Number

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) in what parts of the United Kingdom the national single non-emergency number is available; [95803]

(2) on what date the national single non-emergency number will be available throughout England and Wales. [95804]

Mr. McNulty: The single non-emergency number, 101, is currently available in five areas across England and Wales: Northumbria and Tyne and Wear, Sheffield, Leicester City and Rutland, Cardiff and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

The Government have decided not to proceed with the further roll-out of the Programme beyond Wave 1 at this time (although Wave 1 will continue to be maintained). This decision has been taken to allow more time to fully assess the learning from Wave 1, including optimum costs and benefits. Decisions on future programme development will be deferred pending the outcome of a fuller evaluation of Wave 1 in the autumn of 2007.

Open Prisons

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what occasions in the last six months prisoners in closed conditions were moved as a group to open prisons on out-of-area placements; how
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many such prisoners were so moved; which prisons they were moved (a) to and (b) from in each case; and if he will make a statement. [98898]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The individual occasions and total number of prisoner moves from closed to open conditions is not held centrally, and could be collated only at disproportionate cost.

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