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Departmental Computer Data
Mr. David Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many attempts to gain unauthorised access to his Department's computer systems have (a) been detected and (b) succeeded in each of the last five years. [108321]
Mr. Byrne: The Home Office has appropriate, accredited mechanisms to prevent unauthorised access to IT infrastructure and databases. I am advised that no attempts to gain unauthorised access to Home Office computer systems have been detected in the last five years.
Driving Without Insurance
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) community penalties and (b) disqualifications were imposed on people driving without insurance in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [116902]
Mr. Coaker: Available information taken from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, for the offence of ‘using a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks’, from 2000-2004 (latest available) is provided in the following table.
2005 data will be available later this year.
| Findings of guilt at all courts for the offence of using a motor vehicle unisured against third party risks( 1) community penalties imposed( 2) and total disqualifications imposed( 3) from driving, England and Wales 2000-04 | |||||
| Number of offences | |||||
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003( 4) | 2004 | |
| (1) An offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 s. 143 (2) (2) For 2000 includes probation or supervision order, community service order, attendance centre order, drug treatment and testing order. As from 2001 includes community rehabilitation or supervision order, community punishment order, attendance centre order, community punishment and rehabilitation order, curfew order, reparation order, action plan order, drug treatment and testing order and referral order. (3) Disqualifications are imposed as a secondary disposal. (4) As from 1 June 2003, ‘driving a motor vehicle while uninsured against third party risks’ became a fixed penalty offence. 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 underway 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 limitations are taken into account when these data are used. | |||||
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many £200 fixed penalties were offered to people driving without insurance instead of a court summons in each of the last five years; [117045]
(2) how many fines were imposed for driving without insurance in each of the last five years; and what the average fine was in each year. [117046]
Mr. Coaker:
Available information taken from the fixed penalty notices collection and the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal
Justice Reform, from 2000-04 (latest available) is provided in the following table.
2005 data will be available later this year.
| Total number of fixed penalty notices issued( 1,2) , fines( 3) and average fines imposed at all courts for the offence of using a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks( 4) , England and Wales, 2000-04 | |||||
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003( 1) | 2004 | |
| n/a = not applicable (1 )Fixed penalty of £200 introduced as from 1 June 2003. (2 )Only covers tickets paid where there is no further action. (3 )May include cases where fixed penalty notices were originally issued but not paid and subsequently referred to court. (4 )Offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 s. 143 (2). 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 underway 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 limitations are taken into account when these data are used. | |||||
Early-release Scheme
Dr. Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) murders, (b) manslaughters and (c) other categories of unlawful killing have been committed by former prisoners during the period for which they were originally sentenced since the introduction of the early-release scheme. [104193]
Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 29 November 2006]: The following table sets out the number of offenders (as currently notified to the National Offender Management Service) who have been cautioned, convicted or are awaiting prosecution for offences of murder, manslaughter, and other categories of unlawful killing while they were subject to the home detention curfew scheme. These figures are from the start of the scheme, in January 1999 to the end of June 2006, and during the same period, over 130,000 offenders were placed on to the scheme.
Re-offending figures are subject to change as further information is provided by the police and other criminal justice agencies, as new offences are identified, or offenders are acquitted.
| From the start of the HOC scheme to end June 2006 | Number |
|
Manslaughter with mechanical vehicle (Death by Dangerous Driving) |
E-crime
Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of e-crime. [116702]
Mr. Coaker: This information is not held centrally and collecting it would involve disproportionate costs.
There is no universal definition of e-crime.
Departments do not quantify the cost to them of e-crime and it is not possible to reliably aggregate such costs.
Fireworks
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many successful prosecutions have been made for (a) illegal purchase of fireworks, (b) illegal use of fireworks and (c) use of fireworks as a weapon likely to cause human harm in each of the last two years, broken down by police authority area. [115031]
Mr. Coaker: The court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform is unable to provide conviction data for the illegal purchase of fireworks, as there is no such offence. The number of persons found guilty of throwing, casting or firing fireworks, broken down by police force area, is shown in Table 1. The offence of using adult fireworks during night hours is coded with a wide range of other fireworks offences within the Fireworks Act 2003, and separate conviction data therefore cannot be provided. Cases involving the use of fireworks as a weapon likely to cause human harm cannot be separated, as data are not held to that level of detail.
In addition, penalty notices for disorder can be issued for a range of fireworks offences. The offence of throwing a firework in a public thoroughfare came into force on 8 August 2002; the offence of breach of the fireworks curfew was added to the PND Scheme on 11 October 2004. The number of penalty notices issued for these two offences for the years 2004-06 (January to June 2006—provisional) is included in Table 2.
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