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Ministerial Corrections

Wednesday 20 February 2008

Home Department

Police: Greater London

Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers there were in (a) London and (b) each London borough in each year since 1997. [166922]

[Official Report, 4 December 2007, Vol. 468, c. 1109-10W.]

Letter from Tony McNulty:

An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Johnson) on 4 December 2007. The correct answer should have been:

Mr. McNulty: The available information is in the following tables. Police officer figures for London boroughs were collected centrally from 2003.

Number of police officers for London and London boroughs: 1997 to 2007( 1)
Table A: Police officers (FTE) for London: 1997 to 2002( 1)
	Year ending 31 March:
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
London(2)	27,536	26,919	26,851	26,217	25,581	26,987

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Table B: Police officers (FTE) for London and London boroughs: 2003 to 2007( 1)
	Year ending 31 March:
	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Barking and Dagenham	360	384	419	426	427
Barnet	522	541	561	554	551
Bexley	315	338	383	361	371
Brent	619	683	679	667	672
Bromley	417	459	489	484	493
Camden	719	794	850	854	812
City of Westminster	1,565	1,637	1,617	1,572	1,561
Croydon	624	659	692	694	684
Ealing	652	697	686	673	681
Enfield	490	538	575	560	582
Greenwich	604	583	605	615	632
Hackney	673	766	789	767	744
Hammersmith and Fulham	513	516	526	553	562
Haringey	633	682	683	717	689
Harrow	302	333	342	347	354
Havering	340	343	383	380	383
Hillingdon	458	484	498	506	495
Hounslow	467	472	510	501	519
Islington	623	680	683	685	678
Kensington and Chelsea	528	575	562	574	568
Kingston upon Thames	272	275	298	307	294
Lambeth	968	941	984	994	953
Lewisham	571	625	646	649	619
Merton	304	339	352	353	377
Newham	692	781	782	781	758
Redbridge	393	440	459	471	467
Richmond upon Thames	284	285	287	294	303
Southwark	838	869	891	873	846
Sutton	266	280	291	307	306
Tower Hamlets	686	760	761	775	756
Waltham Forest	486	533	546	556	543
Wandsworth	557	612	582	607	599
City of London	434	445	438	438	412
London(2)	28,792	30,588	31,586	31,405	31,564
(1) All figures are full-time equivalents (FTE) rounded to the nearest whole number. (2) The London totals comprise officer totals for Metropolitan police and City of London police. They are ‘not’ totals of the London boroughs because they also include Heathrow and Central Services. Excludes officers on career breaks and maternity/paternity leave.

A letter has been sent to the hon. Member and made available in the Library of the House.

Justice

Police Custody

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 20 February 2007, Official Report, column 1227W, on police custody, on how many occasions Operation Safeguard was used in England and Wales between 1 January 2006 and 1 April 2007. [134069]

[Official Report, 30 April 2007, Vol. 459, c. 1416-17W.]

Letter from David Hanson:

Errors have been identified in the written answer given to the hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier) on 30 April 2007. The correct answer should have been:

Mr. Sutcliffe: Operation Safeguard was reactivated on 22 January 2007. Between 22 January and 30 March 2007, Operation Safeguard was used on 9,640 occasions. This does not correspond precisely to a number of prisoners: one occasion means one prisoner night in a police cell.

I apologise that this information was not properly provided at the time the question was answered. I am arranging for a correction to be made in Hansard.

I am copying this letter to Gerry Sutcliffe.

Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many convicted prisoners have been held overnight in police cells or custody suites in Wales; and for how many nights each prisoner has been so held, broken down by police force area. [162846]

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[Official Report, 12 November 2007, Vol. 467, c. 28-29W.]

Letter fr om David Hanson:

Errors have been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs. Gillan) on 12 November 2007. The correct answer should have been:

Mr. Hanson: Figures for convicted prisoners are not held separately. Between 22 January and 7 November 2007, convicted and remand prisoners were held under Operation Safeguard in police cells in Wales on 4,289 occasions. The number of occasions does not correspond precisely to the number of prisoners: one occasion means one prisoner night in a police cell. This total breaks down by police forces as follows:

	Number
Dyfed Powys	682
South Wales	1,177
North Wales	1,628
Gwent	802

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