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Crime: Nature Conservation
Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions for wildlife crimes there were in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [188573]
Maria Eagle: The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for the offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Protection of Badgers Act 1992, Deer Act 1991, Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulation 1997, and the Conservation of Seals Act 1970, in England and Wales for the years 1997 to 2006 can be viewed in the following table.
Court proceedings data for 2007 will be available in the autumn of 2008.
| Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Protection of Badgers Act 1992, Deer Act 1991, Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulation 1997, and the Conservation of Seals Act 1970, in England and Wales for the years 1997 to 2006( 1, 2, 3, 4) | ||
| Proceeded against | Found guilty | |
| (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. (3) Includes the following Statutes: Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 Protection of Badgers Act 1992 Deer Act 1991 Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulation 1997 Conservation of Seals Act 1970 (4) Staffordshire Police Force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table. Source: Court proceedings data held by RDS - Office for Criminal Justice Reform - Ministry of Justice | ||
Dangerous Driving: Reoffenders
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people convicted for the first time of dangerous driving in the last 10 years subsequently committed a second offence of dangerous driving; and if he will make a statement. [193738]
Mr. Hanson: Data from the police national computer shows that in England and Wales between 1997 and 2006 43,863 offenders were convicted for the first time of dangerous driving. Of these, 3,769 were also convicted on at least one later occasion between 1997 and 2006 of dangerous driving. These figures have been derived from the police's administrative IT system, which, as with any large scale recording system, is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Holloway Prison: Disciplinary Proceedings
Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many disciplinary hearings have taken place as a result of the investigations following the death in custody of Lyndsey Wright in February 2005 at HM Prison Holloway; what the outcomes of the hearings were; and how much they have cost. [193746]
Maria Eagle: I am not able to reply substantively to this question as the inquest into the death of Lyndsey Wright has not yet been held and information of this type could prejudice inquest hearings.
Human Trafficking: Children
Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of trafficked children who were transferred from adult prisons to the juvenile secure estate following a re-determination of their age assessment in the last three years. [182647]
Mr. Hanson: Neither the Prison Service nor the Youth Justice Board, which has responsibility for placing young people in the under-18 secure estate, is aware of any such transfers during the period in question.
Land Registry: Retirement
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many members of staff aged 64 years or more in the Land Registry (a) in Peterborough and (b) elsewhere have been offered the option to continue to work beyond 65 years of age in the current financial year; and if he will make a statement. [194463]
Mr. Wills: In the current financial year, 67 members of Land Registry became or will become 64 years of age, of whom five are Peterborough staff. Of these, nine have applied to continue working for Land Registry beyond 65 years of age, including one from the Peterborough Office. To date, no application has been approved.
Under The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, which came into effect on 1 October 2006, all Land Registry staff approaching the age of 65 have an entitlement to request to work beyond the age of 65.
The Human Resources department actively remind staff of this entitlement about six months before the age of 65 is reached.
Magistrates Courts: Telford
David Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many individuals under the age of 21 years appeared before magistrates in Telford in each of the last five years. [193904]
Maria Eagle: Data showing the number of defendants aged under 21 who were proceeded against at Telford magistrates court from 2002 to 2004 are shown in the following table. From 1 January 2005 Telford magistrates court was merged with Bridgnorth magistrates court to form Telford and Bridgnorth local justice area. It is not possible to separate those proceeded against at Telford magistrates court from those at Bridgnorth for 2005 and 2006 and combined data are provided in the following table for those years.
| Number of defendants aged under 21 proceeded against at Telford magistrates court from 2002 to 2004 and at Telford and Bridgnorth( 1) local justice area for 2005 to 2006( 2) | |
| Number of defendants | |
| (1) From 1 January 2005 Telford MC was merged with Bridgnorth MC to form the Telford and Bridgnorth local justice area. Data supplied for 2005 and 2006 are for the combined LJA and separate data for Telford MC for those years are not centrally available. (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. | |
Offenders: Unemployment
Mr. Todd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 13 December 2007, Official Report, column 469W, on offenders: unemployment, when he expects to decide on the future of the pilots; and whether he has taken advice on the continued use of this sanction in pilot areas after monitoring has ceased. [194113]
Mr. Hanson: The matter is still under consideration but I expect to announce the outcome shortly.
Open Prisons: Prisoner Escapes
Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners convicted of (a) murder, (b) rape and (c) other sexual offences have absconded from open prisons in England and Wales in the last three years; and how many of them remain at large. [193233]
Mr. Straw:
Data are shown in the following tables for the number of prisoners convicted of (a) murder, (b) rape and (c) other sexual offences who have absconded
in the last three years from open or semi-open prisons and how many remain at large at the end of February 2008.
| Absconds from open prisons in England and Wales: January 2005 to December 2007 | ||||
| January to December | ||||
| Offence | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Total |
| Number of absconders in the aforementioned table still at large at the end of February 2008 | ||||
| January to December | ||||
| Offence | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Total |
The number of overall absconds from open prisons in the last two years has been about half the level of 1996-97
Operation Safeguard: Costs
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department was invoiced for costs incurred under Operation Safeguard in each month since the start of 2008, broken down by police force; and if he will make a statement. [192966]
Mr. Straw: Police forces invoice in arrears for the cost of holding prisoners under Operation Safeguard. No invoice has yet been received from any police force for a complete month in 2008.
Police Custody: Costs
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average cost per night was for holding people in custody in police cells in Staffordshire in the latest period for which figures are available. [193613]
Mr. Straw: Staffordshire police have not invoiced the Ministry of Justice for the cost of holding prisoners overnight in police cells since Operation Safeguard was activated in October 2006.
However, the estimated average cost of holding a prisoner in a police cell under Operation Safeguard in England and Wales is currently in the region of £385 per night.
Prisoners: Death
Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what disciplinary tribunal hearings have been held following deaths in prison allegedly resulting from employee negligence against those employees; and what the outcomes were of those hearings. [193731]
Maria Eagle: The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only by contacting all 127 public sector Prison Service establishments and manually collating their local records at a disproportionate cost.
Prisoners: Drugs
James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what proportion of prisoners who entered drug rehabilitation programmes completed those programmes in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [193839]
Mr. Hanson: The total number of prisoners who entered drug rehabilitation programmes in the last 12 months and completed the programmes are given in the following table:
| 2006-07 | |
| Number of prisoners | |
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