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Public Order Offences

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to extend the use of penalty notices for disorder. [128214]

Mr. Coaker: The Government are reviewing the list of offences for which a penalty notice for disorder may be issued. No decision has yet been made on whether and, if so, how to extend the scheme.

Serious Organised Crime Agency: Surveys

Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he plans to publish the results of the poll commissioned by the board of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency of staff views. [127590]

Mr. Coaker: No. The results of the staff survey are being discussed and will then be circulated internally to SOCA staff.

SOCA values the staff survey as an opportunity to receive honest views on corporate issues. It is completed on the basis that results will not be made public. Publication could undermine the confidence necessary for it to be an effective tool for the organisation, which is still at an early stage of its development.

Theft: Lancashire

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were cautioned for shoplifting in Lancashire in each of the last five years. [127101]

Mr. McNulty: The number of offenders cautioned for stealing from shops and stalls (shoplifting) in the Lancashire police force area from 2001 to 2005 is shown in the table.


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Number of offenders cautioned for stealing from shops and stalls (shoplifting) in the Lancashire police force area, 2001 to 2005( 1,2)
Statute Offence 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Theft Act 1968 Sec 1.

Stealing from shops and stalls (shoplifting)

1,143

886

975

1,152

801

(1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (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 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.

Young Offenders

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drug rehabilitation requirement orders were (a) issued to and (b) breached by young offenders aged 18 years and under in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement. [126111]

Mr. Coaker: Drug rehabilitation requirements were introduced under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which came into effect on 4 April 2005. They can be made under community orders or suspended sentence orders and apply only to offenders aged 18 and over. Between April and December 2005, 140 drug rehabilitation requirements were made by the courts for offenders aged 18 who commenced probation service supervision. In this same period some 30 drug rehabilitation requirements were terminated early by 18-year-olds either for failure to comply with requirements or for further offence convictions. The equivalent figures for the period January to September 2006 were 160 for both commencements and terminations(1).

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject
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to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and the totals have been rounded.

Young Offenders: Community Service Orders

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many community rehabilitation orders were (a) issued to and (b) breached by young offenders aged 18 years or under in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement. [127453]

Mr. Sutcliffe: For sentencing purposes juveniles are defined as being aged 17 and under. Eighteen-year-olds are treated as adults. This response therefore is confined to young offenders aged 10-17 in the interest of clarity.

Statistics on sentencing of young offenders (persons aged 10-17) are published in “Sentencing Statistics 2005” (Home Office Statistical Bulletin No. 03/07), a copy of which is in the Library.

Table 3.7 on page 70 includes numbers of community rehabilitation orders made.

These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.

The bulletin referred to is also available on the Home Office website at:

Quality checks have shown that breach data are unsuitable for publication. Statistics on breaches can therefore only be published when significant improvements have been made to the submissions of these data to the Home Office.


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