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TV Licence
Mr. Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many individuals purchased black and white television licences in each ITV television region between 1 December 2005 and 1 December 2006. [108763]
Mr. Woodward [holding answer 14 December 2006]: TV Licensing, which administers the television licensing system as agent for the BBC, does not record sales of TV licences by ITV region. The BBC have indicated that the total number of black and white licences purchased by individuals between 1 December 2005 and 30 November 2006 was approximately 38,000; in addition, just under 7,000 free licences were issued to people aged 75 or over and paid for by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Home Department
Airports (Security)
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 30 November 2006, Official Report, column 897W, why the information on the number of prosecutions for incidents relating to security breaches at (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick, (c) other airports serving London and (d) other airports serving England and Wales is not centrally held by his Department. [110176]
Mr. McNulty:
The court proceedings data held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform database do not include information on the circumstances of offences
and it is therefore not possible to identify prosecutions resulting from security breaches at airports. The database could not be extended to include such information without incurring disproportionate costs.
Alcohol-related Offences
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of offences against the person have been linked to (a) alcohol abuse and (b) use of illegal drugs in each year since 1997. [110317]
Mr. Coaker: From the information collected centrally, it is not possible to identify those offences which are alcohol or drug-related. Such offences are not specifically defined by statute and details of the individual circumstances of offences do not feature in the recorded crime data series.
The British Crime Survey (BCS) provides information on the proportion of violent incidents in England and Wales where the offender was thought to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs. According to the latest BCS (2005/06) the offender was thought to be under the influence of alcohol in 44 per cent. of violent incidents, and under the influence of drugs in 23 per cent. of violent incidents (see table 1 for figures for previous years).
The proportion of other crime-related incidents where the offender was thought to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs has not been estimated.
This information was published by the Home Office in the “Crime in England and Wales 2005/06” and “Violent Crime Overview, Homicide and Gun crime 2004/05” publications. This information is via Home Office websites:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0506.html
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0405.html
| Table 1: whether offender/s under the influence of drink or drugs in violent incidents?BCS | |||||||
| Percentage | |||||||
| 1997 | 1999 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | |
Dr. Stoate: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of alcohol- related violence took place in (a) England and Wales, (b) the Kent police force area and (c) the North Kent basic command unit in each of the last five years. [109633]
Mr. Coaker: From the information collected centrally, it is not possible to identify those offences which are alcohol-related. Such offences are not specifically defined by statute and details of the individual circumstances of offences do not feature in the recorded crime data series.
The British Crime Survey (BCS) provides information on the number of violent incidents where the offender was thought to be under the influence of alcohol.
According to the latest BCS (2005-06) there were 1,029,000 violent incidents in England and Wales where the offender was thought to be under the influence of alcohol (see the following table for numbers since 2001-02 BCS). The numbers of alcohol-related violent incidents are not broken down by police force area or basic command unit.
This information was published by the Home Office in the Crime in England and Wales 2005-06
publication. This information is available in the Library, and via Home Office website:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0506.html.
| Number of violent incidents where offender was thought to be under the influence of alcohol | |
| Number of offences (thousand)( 1) | |
| (1) BCS | |
Alcohol Rehabilitation
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to improve the provision of alcohol rehabilitation for offenders. [109679]
John Reid: In May 2006 the National Probation Directorate (NPD) published Working with Alcohol Misusing Offenders—a strategy for delivery. The strategy, which complements the Prison Service Alcohol Strategy to create a coherent NOMS Alcohol Strategy, contains a number of actions for NPD and recommendations for probation areas to improve provision, many of which are being taken forward in 2006-07. This includes NPD funding to support some best practice projects in probation areas.
Good practice guidance has been issued to prisons to improve the consistency of alcohol services.
Arrest Rates
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the arrest rate was for crimes reported (a) as committed by a burglar, (b) as committed by an armed robber, (c) as a cause of aggravated assault and (d) by a drug dealer in the last period for which figures are available; and what the rate was in 1997. [108189]
Mr. Coaker: Arrest rates are not available and cannot be derived from recorded crime and arrest data that are collected centrally.
ASBOs
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many anti-social behaviour orders have been issued in each constituency in each year since their inception. [106846]
Mr. McNulty: ASBO data are not available at parliamentary constituency level. A table giving the number of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) issued annually, as reported to the Home Office by the Court Service, by the local government authority area in which prohibitions have been imposed, up to 31 December 2005 (latest available), can be found on the Crime Reduction website at:
www.crimereduction.gov.uk
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders were (a) issued and (b) breached in the Chelmsford local authority area in each of the last five years. [109900]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 19 December 2006]: A table giving the number of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) issued annually, as reported to the Home Office by the Court Service, by the local government authority area in which prohibitions have been imposed, up to 31 December 2005 (latest available), can be found on the Crime Reduction website at
www.crimereduction.gov.uk.
ASBO breach data are not available at local authority level.
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many antisocial behaviour orders were issued to (a) people under 19 and (b) people aged 19 years or over in each local authority in the East Midlands in the last 12 months; [112722]
(2) how many antisocial behaviour orders were breached in each local authority in the East Midlands in the last 12 months. [112723]
Mr. McNulty: The available information on the number of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) issued at all courts in 2005 (latest available), as reported to the Home Office by the Court Service, is given in the table by local government authority area in which prohibitions are imposed. ASBO breach data are not available at local authority level.
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