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Justice

Crimes of Violence: Greater London

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many convictions there were for violent crimes in (a) Romford, (b) Essex and (c) Greater London in each of the last four years; [186899]

(2) how many people under the age of 18 years were convicted of criminal offences in (a) Romford, (b) Greater London and (c) Essex in 2007. [186926]

Maria Eagle: The number of persons convicted at all courts for violence against the person offences in (b) Essex, and (c) City of London and Metropolitan police force areas for the years 2002 to 2006 can be viewed in table 1.

The number of young persons under the age of 18 years convicted at all courts for all offences in (b) Essex, and (c) City of London and Metropolitan police force areas for the year 2006 can be viewed in table 2.

City of London and Metropolitan police force area data have been provided, and combined they make up the Greater London police force area.

It is not possible to identify those defendants in (a) Romford constituency, as the data are not collected at this level of detail.

Table 1: the number of persons convicted at all courts of offences relating to violence against the person, in the City of London, Essex, and Metropolitan police force areas, for the years 2002 to 2006( 1,2)
Force 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

City of London

65

55

45

43

34

Essex

618

702

827

832

808

Metropolitan Police

6,394

5,871

6,080

6,060

6,168

(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.
Note:
Includes the following offence classes:
1 Murder
2 Attempted Murder
3 Threat or Conspiracy to Murder
4.1 Manslaughter
4.2 Infanticide
4.3 Child Destruction
4.4 Causing Death by Dangerous Driving
4.5 Manslaughter Due to Diminished Responsibility
4.6 Causing Death by Careless Driving when under the influence of Drink or Drugs
4.7 Causing Death of a child or vulnerable person
5 Wounding or other act Endangering Life
6 Endangering Railway Passenger
7 Endangering Life at Sea
8 Malicious Wounding etc.
11 Cruelty to or Neglect of Children
12 Abandoning Child aged under Two Years
13 Child Abduction
15 Concealment of Birth
37.1 Causing Death by Aggravated Vehicle Taking
Source:
Court proceedings database held by RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice

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Table 2. The number of young persons under the age of 18 years convicted at all courts of all offences, in the City of London, Essex, and Metropolitan police force areas, for the year 2006( 1,2)
Force 2006

City of London

5

Essex

2,837

Metropolitan police

12,185

(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.
Source:
Court proceedings database held by RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice

Court proceedings data for 2007 will be available in the autumn of 2008.


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Departmental Contracts

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the (a) objective and (b) value was of each contract placed with (i) Deloitte and Touche, (ii) Ernst and Young, (iii) KPMG, (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers and (v) PA Consulting by his Department, its predecessor Department and its agencies in each year since 2004-05. [179033]

Maria Eagle: In the financial years from 2004-05 to 2006-07, the last full year for when figures are available, the Ministry of Justice and its predecessor Department and agencies engaged the organisations named above to deliver consultancy services as outlined in the following table.

While details of expenditure on other categories of service delivered by these organisations are held by individual business managers for the period in question, they are not held centrally by my Department and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Financial year 2004-05
Supplier Objective Value (£)

Deloitte and Touche

Update of Libra business case and finance model.

79,529

Deloitte and Touche

Implementation of IT Shared Services including creation of a new DCA IT delivery organisation.

1,603,700

Ernst & Young

Independent Regulatory Review of the Regulatory Framework for Legal Services in England and Wales.

235,256

KPMG

Consultancy support connected with public register of fines and judgements.

101,000

KPMG

Consultancy support connected with corporate reorganisation of DCA centre and subsequent transition planning.

817,751

KPMG

HR review and assessment connected with post of Head of Scotland Office

2,816

KPMG

Review of Finance Division functions and roles.

68,750

KPMG

Specialist audit by independent consultants of fraud risk at Court Funds Office.

22,000

KPMG

Management review and assessment of SCS processes on behalf of Human Resources.

26,704

KPMG

Review and assessment of European Policy and Information Rights Division.

5,747

KPMG

Advising on balance sheet accounting issues, standardisation manual and project management for HMCS Estates.

17,137

PricewaterhouseCoopers

A number of projects, including Vulnerable Customers Project; Civil Justice Consumer Research & Criminal Justice Experience Project that fed into the Consumer Strategy Review.

2,162,000

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Review of Court Private Finance initiative schemes accounting treatment and review of annual reporting.

34,150

PA

Consultancy support connected with Courts Act Pilots and data / performance analysis and best practice identification.

1,304,050



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Financial year 2005-06
Supplier Objective Value (£)

Deloitte and Touche

Update of Business Case to Treasury relating to Supreme Court Implementation Programme.

92,950

Deloitte and Touche

Support with implementation of the IT Shared Services Project.

174,570

Deloitte and Touche

Supported development of Libra Business Case.

35,227

Deloitte and Touche

Project/programme management connected with Gateway Review.

88,076

Deloitte and Touche

Project and programme management connected with eDG Assignment Initiation Document.

64,652

Deloitte and Touche

Finance & Project Accounting support to eDG, Costing & Charging Process Assurance, Contract Management Team Review.

888,688

Deloitte and Touche

Change management co-ordinators for implementation of Oracle 11i financial software.

52,370

Ernst & Young

Provided financial advice connected with HM Treasury Green Book analysis.

23,412

Ernst & Young

Development of policies and procedures regarding expense payments to Lord Lieutenants.

21,951

Ernst & Young

Development of a number of financial management modelling tools for use by HMCS.

323,000

KPMG

Risk management review of DCA corporate Governance structures.

86,160

KPMG

Re-shaping HQ Delivery of its 5 Year Strategy Plan.

173,900

KPMG

Review of DCA Governance structures to highlight gaps, inconsistencies and issues.

73,200

KPMG

Review and development of Performance Management Framework.

86,750

KPMG

External recruitment campaign for senior change management personnel.

58,827

KPMG

Redesign of Assessment Centre for Senior Staffing & Talent Management.

10,000

KPMG

Analytical support and advice on existing financial systems and processes for Financial Systems Implementation (FSI) project.

382,073

KPMG

Financial management accounting assessment.

12,870

KPMG

Modelling and financial analysis on behalf of Legal Services Commission.

33,119

KPMG

Consultancy support with DCA Senior Civil Service Assessment Centres.

5,000

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Provided financial analysis to support the draft Legal Services Bill and produced an actuarial report on the Compensation Fund.

150,000

PricewaterhouseCoopers

External research, analysis and project management of major survey of public attitudes to and engagement with the Criminal Justice System

325,530

PricewaterhouseCoopers

External research and analysis of business information held across the Criminal Justice Service.

106,000

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Support connected with the cross-government Administrative Burdens Reduction project.

95,020

PricewaterhouseCoopers

HR consultancy concerning provision of Learning and Development advice and delivery of a plan for the “new” Department.

128,352

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Workforce Development Strategy, summary document and advice

8,852

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Consultancy on Performance Management

19,588

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Provided support and advice on setting up HMCS Finance plus transition of other DCA Finance functions.

74,025

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Project management connected with implementation of Oracle 11i financial software.

204,163

PricewaterhouseCoopers

External Review of DCA Internal Audit Function.

24,400

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Development and implementation of financial reporting tool.

167,000

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Development of a risk management identification and reporting format.

77,000

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Cost Benefit Analysis of Civil justice Centre, Liverpool.

22,090

PA

Embedding programme and project management techniques within Constitution Directorate.

13,074

PA

Programme & Project Management of major change programme within Constitution Directorate.

37,900

PA

Provide consultancy support to help build the evidence base to inform HM Courts Service Business Strategy

92,500

PA

Electronic Filing & Document Management (EFDM) feasibility study

136,300

PA

Expert development of the Electronic Filing & Document Management (EFDM) business case.

373,700

PA

Support with various consultancy projects associated with roll out and in support of the National Enforcement Programme whose aim was to improve enforcement performance within HMCS.

1,523,196

PA

Development of capacity modelling tool leading to improved performance by HMCS Enforcement (London) region.

141,900

PA

Development of high-level business case and implementation plan for the HMCS Business Strategy to improve operating efficiency and effectiveness.

482,026

PA

Development of a capacity modelling tool designed to improve operational performance in the magistrates courts.

40,373

PA

Strategic consultancy advice for developing supplier market. Analysed market and advised on development of supplier strategy to improve operation and process.

299,109


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