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Table B: Parenting orders made following truancy prosecution between 1 September 2004 and 13 April 2007
School year Parenting o rders for t ruancy

2004-05

2

2005-06

0

2006-07

0


Alcoholic Drinks: Children

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many prosecutions there were for delivering alcohol to children in (a) England and (b) each police force area in England in each year since the Licensing Act 2003 commenced; [158077]

(2) how many prosecutions there were for consumption of alcohol by children in (a) England and (b) each police force area in England in each year since the Licensing Act 2003 commenced; [158078]

(3) how many prosecutions there were for purchase of alcohol by or on behalf of children in (a) England and (b) each police force area in England in each year since the Licensing Act 2003 commenced; [158079]

(4) how many prosecutions there were in (a) England and (b) each police force area in England for (i) sale of alcohol to children and (ii) allowing the sale of alcohol to children in each year since the Licensing Act 2003 commenced; [158080]

(5) how many prosecutions there were for obtaining alcohol for a person who was drunk in (a) England and (b) each police force area in England in each year since the Licensing Act 2003 commenced; [158081]

(6) how many prosecutions there were for under-age buying of alcohol and attempting to buy alcohol under-age in (a) England and (b) each police force area in England in (i) 1996 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available; [158082]

(7) how many prosecutions there were for being drunk and disorderly of defendants aged 10 to 17 years in (a) England and (b) each police force area in
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England in (i) 1996 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available; [158083]

(8) how many prosecutions there were for sending a child to obtain alcohol in (a) England and (b) each police force area in England in each year since the Licensing Act 2003 commenced. [158104]

Mr. Coaker: From 2004 the offences of underage purchasing of alcohol by a person under 18, consumption of alcohol by a person under 18 in licensed premises, delivery of alcohol to children and being guilty of drunk and disorderly behaviour are all part of the penalty notice for disorder (PND) scheme which allow the police an option of issuing an on the spot penalty for the offence, rather than taking the matter to court. Figures show that for these offences, the following number of PNDs were issued in 2004 and 2005.


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Number

Underage purchasing of alcohol (offence added in 2005)

2005

21

Consumption of alcohol by person under 18 in licensed premises

2004

7

2005

84

Delivery of alcohol to children

2004

20

2005

209

Drunk and disorderly (16 and 17-year-olds)

2004

1,328

2005

2,354


Information on the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts for the offences requested are provided in the following tables.

There were no prosecutions for (i) allowing the sale of alcohol to children (ii) purchase of alcohol by or on behalf of children (iii) consumption of alcohol by children (iv) delivering alcohol to children (v) sending a child to obtain alcohol (vi) obtaining alcohol for a person who was drunk reported to my Department.

Information for 2006 will be available in November.


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Number of defendants aged 10-17 proceeded against at magistrates courts for selected alcohol offences by police force area, England, 1996 and 2005( 1,2)
Any person who in any public place is guilty, while drunk, of disorderly behaviour( 3) Person under 18 buying or attempting to buy or consuming intoxicating liquor. Person under 18 buying or consuming intoxicating liquor in licensed premises( 4) Person under 18 buying or attempting to buy intoxicating liquor from wholesale premises( 5)
Police force area 1996 2005 1996 2005 1996 2005

14101(left)

Avon and Somerset

11

23

Bedfordshire

7

11

Cambridgeshire

3

11

14316 (middle)

Cheshire

50

11

City of London

Cleveland

67

25

14354 (right)

Cumbria

55

41

5

Derbyshire

8

25

Devon and Cornwall

31

63

1

1

Dorset

12

5

1

Durham

48

75

1

Essex

26

11

1

Gloucestershire

3

8

Greater Manchester

64

25

1

1

Hampshire

49

59

1

3

Hertfordshire

18

29

Humberside

21

17

Kent

34

66

1

Lancashire

45

75

Leicestershire

3

1

Lincolnshire

13

12

Merseyside

196

72

1

Metropolitan Police

46

22

Norfolk

4

2

North Yorkshire

12

30

3

2

Northamptonshire

1

2

Northumbria

186

514

3

Nottinghamshire

45

16

South Yorkshire

89

53

Staffordshire

27

23

2

Suffolk

10

18

Surrey

11

26

1

Sussex

29

37

Thames Valley

54

39

1

Warwickshire

19

3

West Mercia

20

63

West Midlands

28

19

West Yorkshire

103

62

2

Wiltshire

18

15

England

1,466

1,609

19

12

1

(1) These data are provided 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 and courts. 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) Offence under the Criminal Justice Act 1967 sec. 91.
(4) Offence under the Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Act 1983 schedule (sec .3) para. 4(2). Licensing Act 1964 sec. 169(2).
(5) Offence under the Licensing Act 1964 sec.181 A(3) as added by Licensing Act 1988 sec. 17.
Source:
RDS—Court proceedings database—Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice
Our ref. IOS 351-358-07

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