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Number of offences
2003 2004
Police force area Total court proceedings( 1) Total number of fixed penalties( 2) Total court proceedings( 1) Total number of fixed penalties( 2)

Avon and Somerset

69

2,966

80

3,309

Bedfordshire

38

2,118

32

3,477

Cambridgeshire

33

1,693

36

2,215

Cheshire

34

2,133

29

4,780

Cleveland

42

1,613

45

2,429

Cumbria

119

1,212

105

2,121

Derbyshire

103

3,703

99

4,308

Devon and Cornwall

97

3,689

90

3,395

Dorset

36

1,447

29

1,269

Durham

34

2,016

35

1,733

Essex

77

4,540

129

9,950

Gloucestershire

13

1,174

16

1,216

Greater Manchester

363

5,034

280

9,111

Hampshire

174

6,083

160

7,206

Hertfordshire

61

5,065

88

7,624

Humberside

110

1,657

109

1,978

Kent

66

4,308

59

4,212

Lancashire

308

5,854

230

6,558

Leicestershire

78

2,338

70

1,914

Lincolnshire

46

4,195

85

7,783

London, City of

16

209

25

1,082

Merseyside

399

1,893

404

4,791

Metropolitan Police

1,025

16,165

1,459

19,233

Norfolk

46

1,788

36

2,012

Northamptonshire

7

721

9

640

Northumbria

131

4,921

120

6,253

North Yorkshire

49

2,299

45

3,339

Nottinghamshire

40

1,279

43

1,371

South Yorkshire

67

3,901

69

6,343

Staffordshire

42

1,173

62

3,500

Suffolk

46

1,528

49

2,621

Surrey

61

3,845

73

4,187

Sussex

37

1,665

27

1,488

Thames Valley

186

9,717

186

15,914

Warwickshire

25

992

24

1,071

West Mercia

74

3,147

96

6,363

West Midlands

244

4,161

258

9,966

West Yorkshire

295

8,394

352

8,643

Wiltshire

66

2,844

52

3,656

Dyfed-Powys

73

1,628

22

1,066

Gwent

38

2,424

21

2,744

North Wales

43

4,688

61

6,106

South Wales

79

3,074

93

2,937

England and Wales

4,990

145,294

5,392

201,914

(1) May include cases where a fixed penalty notice was originally issued but not paid and subsequently referred to court.
(2) Paid i.e. no further action.
(3) Offences under the Road Act 1988 ss. 14 (3) and 15 (2) and (4). (Driver and passenger offences cannot be separately identified).
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 these data are used.

Serious Organised Crime Agency

Mr. Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drugs liaison officer posts there were at the Serious Organised Crime Agency at (a) its establishment and (b) in each year since. [111132]

Mr. Coaker: On 1 April 2006, SOCA inherited a total of 59 drugs liaison officers from precursor agencies. On 1 April 2006, all overseas posts were reclassified as general crime, or SOCA liaison officer, posts.

Mr. Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions overtime payments for intercept teams in the Serious Organised Crime Agency were (a) made and (b) refused in the last 12 months; and for what reasons payments were refused. [111133]

Mr. Coaker: This is an operational matter for SOCA.

Smoking Ban

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to his Department was of enforcing a smoking ban in 2005-06; and what the cost of providing support to staff wishing to give up smoking was in 2005-06. [115674]

Mr. Byrne: The cost to the Home Department in 2005-06 of enforcing a smoking ban has been estimated to be approximately £200 for the Home Office Headquarters Estate; the total cost in 2005-06 of providing support to staff wishing to give up smoking was £97.85. These costs do not include the Prison Service as this information can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.


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Tasker Investigation

Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of the investigation conducted by Mr. Ron Tasker in January 2006 into managerial corruption within HM Prison Service and the maltreatment of whistleblowers; and if he will make a statement. [110813]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The report has not been completed and therefore the full cost of the investigation has not been calculated. The report is now due to be completed in mid-February 2007.


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