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Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of persons were stopped and searched under the Terrorism Act 2000 (a) at airports, (b) on London Underground and (c) at train stations in each of the last 10 years. [156483]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 11 October 2007]: Information on the percentage of those stopped under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and the location of those stops and searches is not available.
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what targets the Government have set in relation to stop and search by police officers in England and Wales. [156484]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 11 October 2007]: The use of stop and search powers is an operational matter for individual officers based on individual circumstances. Therefore, there are no Government targets on the exercise of these powers by police officers.
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the detection rate was in 2006-07 for (a) theft and handling stolen goods, (b) fraud and forgery, (c) criminal damage, (d) violence against the person, (e) sexual offences, (f) robbery and (g) all violent crime, calculated by the methodology used to calculate the figures presented in Table 7.03 of Crime in England and Wales 2004-05. [156589]
Jacqui Smith:
The information requested is given in the table and relates to all detections for recorded crime. The Home Office now concentrates on publishing detections data in terms of sanction detections rather than all detections. Sanction
detections provide a more meaningful comparison of individual force performance and some forces have made a policy decision to significantly limit their use of non-sanction detections in recent years.
A number of changes have also been made in response to suggestions in the two reviews of crime
statistics. One such change is that for police recorded crime there are separate violence against the person, sexual offences and robbery categories but these is no longer a combined total 'violent crime' category.
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