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	2006-07
Police force area	Number of transfers (included as part of overall officers leaving the service)	Number of police officers leaving the force with less than two years service	Percentage of police officers leaving with less than two years service
Avon and Somerset	2	10	6
Bedfordshire	1	12	21
Cambridgeshire	0	12	13
Cheshire	0	16	14
Cleveland	1	16	21
Cumbria	0	7	14
Derbyshire	0	9	6
Devon and Cornwall	0	20	15
Dorset	0	15	14
Durham	0	8	13
Dyfed-Powys	0	3	6
Essex	0	42	15
Gloucestershire	1	4	5
Greater Manchester	0	20	4
Gwent	0	8	12
Hampshire	0	22	10
Hertfordshire	0	28	16
Humberside	1	16	13
Kent	0	14	6
Lancashire(2)	0	15	9
Leicestershire(3)	1	8	6
Lincolnshire	1	7	9
London, City of	0	2	3
Merseyside	0	33	13
Metropolitan Police	5	81	5
Norfolk	0	12	12
Northamptonshire	3	13	13
Northumbria	0	13	7
North Wales	0	8	9
North Yorkshire	5	17	17
Nottinghamshire	0	6	4
South Wales	1	10	5
South Yorkshire	2	25	13
Staffordshire	0	12	10
Suffolk	0	3	6
Surrey	6	51	27
Sussex	0	37	17
Thames valley	1	29	10
Warwickshire	1	7	9
West Mercia	0	12	8
West Midlands	5	50	10
West Yorkshire	5	44	13
Wiltshire	2	6	10
Total(4)	44	760	10
(1) Leaving figures include police officers leaving the force within two years of joining or re-joining the service, due to dismissals (including requirement to resign), voluntary resignations, medical retirements, ordinary retirements, all transfers and all deaths. (2) Data for Lancashire was not available in 2002-03. (3) Data for Leicestershire was not available in 2004-05. (4) In order to compare data between 2002-03 and 2006-07 Lancashire and Leicestershire have been excluded from the total.

Justice

Antisocial Behaviour: Fixed Penalties

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many penalty notices for disorder were issued in the first six months of 2007, broken down by (a) police force area and (b) offences committed; and how many such penalty notices for disorder were (i) paid in full within the 21 day suspended enforcement period, (ii) paid in full outside the 21 day suspended enforcement period, (iii) registered as fines, (iv) contested in court and (v) cancelled. [167981]

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Maria Eagle: Finalised data for the whole of 2006 covering the breakdowns requested will be available shortly. I will send the hon. Member a copy when it is available.

Data for 2007 will be available in 2008.

Chemical and Insulating Company Ltd

Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps the Government plans to take in response to the judgment of the House of Lords in Rothwell v. Chemical and Insulating Company Ltd; and if he will make a statement. [168784]

Bridget Prentice: I refer the right hon. Member to my reply on both 13 November 2007, Official Report, column 141W, and 29 October 2007, Official Report, column 798W.

Closed Circuit Television

Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what guidelines there are on minimum pixel density of closed circuit television material used in courts. [168614]

Maria Eagle: There are no guidelines on the minimum pixel density of closed circuit television (CCTV) used in courts. CCTV is used to cover both internal and external areas of courts; the coverage provided varies according to the work of the court and its status. Coverage has evolved over time with a variety of systems and types of cameras being used.

Guidance to courts on the use of CCTV has been revised and the new version will be issued shortly and stresses the need for any system to deliver recognition (of persons and objects) and notes that developments in technology may bring changes in the types of equipment used.

Advice on the use of CCTV is part of the policy document, Safe and Secure, which sets out guidance and practice on security issues for HMCS; this is revised annually and, as a Restricted document, is not available to the general public.

Courts: Interpreters

Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much the Courts Service spent on translation and interpretation services in Cambridgeshire in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. [168949]

Maria Eagle: The information requested is not collected centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost through the manual searching of individual court files. Her Majesty’s Courts Service is giving consideration to the routine collection of data relating to interpreting and translation services used in court.

Courts: Salisbury

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the latest estimate is of the cost of the new courts centre in Salisbury. [169290]

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Maria Eagle: The new court centre in Salisbury is being procured via a private developer scheme whereby Her Majesty's Court Service will be taking on a lease for 30 years at an agreed rent which is in line with the market rate for this area of England. The construction value, as published in the OJEU award notice, was estimated at £14,236,706 excl VAT.

Custodial Treatment: Methamphetamine

Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people have been prosecuted for (a) possession of the drug crystal meth and (b) possession with intent to supply that drug in each of the last six months; how many have been convicted; and how many received a custodial sentence. [166167]

Maria Eagle: Information on the number of persons given prosecutions, convictions and custodial sentences received for possession or possession with intent to supply amphetamines or class B drugs in England and Wales for 2005, the latest year for which data are available, can be viewed in the following table.

Prior to its reclassification to a class A drug on 18 January 2007, Methylamphetamine (“crystal meth”) was a class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

Data for 2007 will be available in the autumn of 2008.

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