House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 25 Jun 2007 (pt 0075)

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Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice whether all Crown Court cells used for detaining prisoners overnight have integral sanitation. [143554]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Most court cells do not have integral sanitation. However, prisoners held in court cells overnight have access to sanitary facilities within the custody area.

Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice whether any prisoners on an open ACCT or 2052SH form have been detained in Crown Court cells overnight. [143555]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Based on current information I am not aware that any prisoners with an open ACCT or 2052SH form have been held overnight in court cells. One occasion has been identified where an ACCT form was opened on a prisoner in the course of the night by medical staff on site in accordance with operating procedures.

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Custodial Treatment: Sexual Offences

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice what proportion of convictions for (a) rape and (b) other sexual offences in (i) Suffolk, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) Cambridgeshire, (iv) Essex, (v) Hertfordshire, (vi) Norfolk and (vii) England resulted in custodial sentences in each year since 1997. [143925]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Data from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform on the percentage of defendants convicted at all courts for offences relating to rape of males and females, and sexual offences not including rape of males and females, who were given immediate custody in certain police force areas and England for the years 1997 to 2005 can be viewed in the following table.

Court proceedings data for 2006 will be available in the autumn of 2007.

Percentage of defendants convicted at all courts for offences relating to rape of males and females who were given immediate custody in certain police force areas and England for the years 1997 to 2005^{( 1,2,3,4)}
Percentage rape
	Bedfordshire	Cambridgeshire	Essex	Hertfordshire	Norfolk	Suffolk	England
1997	100	100	95	100	100	100	97
1998	100	100	93	88	100	100	97
1999	80	100	100	90	100	100	96
2000	100	100	67	100	100	100	95
2001	100	100	100	88	100	100	96
2002	100	100	71	100	100	100	97
2003	100	100	100	100	100	100	97
2004	100	100	100	85	100	100	96
2005	100	91	92	100	91	89	94
⁽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 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. ⁽³⁾ Includes data from the Sexual Offences Act 2004, which came into force on 1 May 2004. ⁽⁴⁾ Care should be taken when using the figures for individual police force areas as these data are based on less than 100 cases. Source: RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice

Percentage of defendants convicted at all courts for sexual offences excluding rape of males and females who were given immediate custody in certain police force areas and England for the years 1997 to 2005^{( 1,2,3,4)}
Percentage other sexual offences
	Bedfordshire	Cambridgeshire	Essex	Hertfordshire	Norfolk	Suffolk	England
1997	36	50	57	47	45	57	48
1998	60	34	40	53	60	60	46
1999	56	37	59	36	61	31	48
2000	64	48	56	53	50	46	50
2001	61	40	54	72	56	50	48
2002	45	51	36	63	55	38	47
2003	69	53	49	55	52	52	44
2004	69	52	56	47	52	52	47
2005	58	49	48	45	56	45	45
⁽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 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. ⁽³⁾ Includes data from the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which came into force on 1 May 2003. ⁽⁴⁾ Care should be taken when using the figures for individual police force areas as these data are based on less than 100 cases. Source: RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice

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Data Protection: Prosecutions

Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice how many prosecutions against data controllers for failure to notify the Information Commissioner of the processing of personal data under the Data Protection Act 1998 were brought in each year since the coming into force of that Act. [144330]

Vera Baird: The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) came into effect on 1 March 2000.

Prosecutions for non-notification under section 17 of the DPA can be instituted by the Information Commissioner or by, or with the consent of, the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Data on all prosecutions under the DPA are collected by the Ministry of Justice's Office for Criminal Justice Reform. Data are collected under specific codes and not on individual case circumstances. Data on the number of prosecutions for non-notification of the processing of personal data under section 17 of the Act therefore cannot be separately identified and data are not available. The information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The Information Commissioner's Office maintains details of prosecutions that they have instituted for non-notification under section 17 of the DPA. These figures are as follows:

	Number
2000	0
2001	0
2002	1
2003	0
2004	3
2005	8
2006	13
2007	1

Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice how many prosecutions for non-notification of the processing of personal data under the Data Protection Act 1998 have been brought by (a) the Information Commissioner, (b) the Director of Public Prosecutions and (c) others with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions. [144331]

Vera Baird: The Information Commissioner's Office has instituted a total of 26 prosecutions for non-notification under section 17 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA).

Data on prosecutions under the DPA are collected by the Ministry of Justice's Office for Criminal Justice Reform. Data are collected under specific codes and not on individual case circumstances. Data on the number of prosecutions for non-notification of the processing of personal data under section 17 of the Act brought by, and with the consent of, the Director of Public Prosecutions therefore cannot be separately identified and data are not available. The information could be provided at only disproportionate cost.

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Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (1) how many prosecutions for non-notification of the processing of personal data under the Data Protection Act 1998 have resulted in convictions; and what penalty was imposed in each case in which no further proceedings are active; [144332]

Vera Baird: Prosecutions for non-notification under section 17 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) can be instituted by the Information Commissioner or by, or with the consent of, the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The Information Commissioner's Office maintains details of prosecutions that they have instituted for non-notification under section 17 of the DPA. Since the introduction of the DPA on 1 March 2000 the Information Commissioner's Office has successfully prosecuted 26 cases under section 17 of the DPA, the details of the penalties imposed in these cases are: one penalty was a conditional discharge, one penalty was linked with other more serious charges and resulted in a sentence of 18 months probation and 150 hours of community service and 24 of the penalties were fines as shown in the table:

Number of convictions	Amount of fine (£)
4	100
4	200
2	250
4	300
2	350
1	400
2	500
1	750
1	750
2	5000
1	5750

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