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Table 3: recorded offences of theft of a pedal cycle— 2002-03 to 2006-07
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Barking and Dagenham	120	170	215	220	174
Barnet	218	374	341	398	247
Bexley	116	139	144	133	115
Brent	229	320	325	326	259
Bromley	179	211	284	225	212
Camden	1,347	1,491	1,337	1,521	1,329
City of Westminster	1,165	1,226	1,347	1,453	1,277
Croydon	240	262	294	325	264
Ealing	467	617	571	584	448
Enfield	186	195	214	226	179
Greenwich	249	304	275	451	395
Hackney	1,019	1,060	980	1,111	1,167
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,058	1,271	1,085	1,017	1,046
Haringey	247	284	339	405	392
Harrow	128	142	133	140	121
Havering	143	198	181	178	130
Hillingdon	264	275	251	367	247
Hounslow	405	533	528	613	569
Islington	1,140	1,898	1,745	1,821	1,682
Kensington and Chelsea	834	858	877	919	758
Kingston upon Thames	387	674	784	859	479
Lambeth	785	943	952	1,196	1,022
Lewisham	270	351	346	492	362
Merton	360	507	503	530	320
Newham	323	327	312	336	275
Redbridge	122	168	141	203	168
Richmond upon Thames	559	650	878	765	739
Southwark	798	1,052	1,070	1,191	1,248
Sutton	188	220	263	307	232
Tower Hamlets	846	1,132	1,156	1,307	1,061
Waltham Forest	176	180	227	271	366
Wandsworth	1,237	1,226	1,217	1,346	1,357
Total	15,805	19,258	19,315	21,236	18,640
Total London(1)	16,232	19,613	19,634	21,572	18,954
Total England	91,589	98,961	98,860	105,778	102,485
(1) includes the City of London police and the Metropolitan police service. Note: The data in this table take account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years.

Tobacco: Young People

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police cautions and (b) fines were issued to (i) confectioners and tobacconists and (ii) other retailers selling tobacco products to those aged under 16 years in each year since 1997; what the average fine levied was in each year; and how many such offences were recorded in each year. [166837]

Mr. McNulty: Information on the number of recorded offences of retailers selling tobacco products to those aged under 16 years is not collected centrally.
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This is a summary offence and is not included in the police recorded crime statistics.

Statistics on the number of police cautions issued, the number of fines imposed and the average fines have been provided by the Ministry of Justice and are given in the table for 1997 to 2005. No information is collected centrally to distinguish between confectionists, tobacconists and other retailers. Data for 2006 are due for publication in late November.

Offenders( 1) cautioned and fined for selling tobacco etc. to persons under 16( 2)
	Number of police cautions issued	Number of fines imposed	Average fine amount (£)
1997	5	90	238
1998	—	115	226
1999	3	90	237
2000	2	113	349
2001	1	74	301
2002	2	67	283
2003	—	82	322
2004	—	50	274
2005	2	56	328
(1) These data are on a principal offence basis. (2) Children and Young Persons Act 1933 section 7 as amended by the Children and Young Persons (Protection from Tobacco) Act 1991 section 1. Note: 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. Source: RDS-NOMS, Ministry of Justice.

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