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Probation: Finance
Mike Wood: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will ensure that funding for probation services is ring-fenced for the next three financial years. [194143]
Mr. Hanson: As I explained in my written ministerial statement “Investing in Alternatives to Custody” on 11 March 2008, Official Report, column l5WS, the Government have made a further £40 million available to the Probation Service in 2008-09, in support of delivery plans in each probation area. The funding allocations for the Probation Service in 2009-10 and 2010-11 will be decided and announced in due course.
Secure Training Centres: Restraint Techniques
Ms Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he expects to publish the results of the review on the use of restraint on young people in secure accommodation. [188659]
Beverley Hughes: I have been asked to reply.
An announcement will be made in the House shortly.
Vandalism: Durham
John Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) arrests, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions there were for vandalism in (i) Easington constituency and (ii) the County of Durham in each year since 2002. [194124]
Maria Eagle: The arrests collection undertaken by the Ministry of Justice provides data on persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences), by age group, gender, ethnicity and main offence group. Information is given in table 1 as follows for Durham police force area for the number of persons arrested for offences within the main offence group ‘criminal damage’.
Data showing the number of defendants proceeded against and found guilty of criminal damage are given in table 2 as follows. The Ministry of Justice is unable to identify cases involving vandalism since both the arrest and court appearance collections are on an offence basis and do not identify the circumstances behind the offences.
Information is given in the tables for Durham police force area. Data are not available at parliamentary constituency level.
| Table 2: Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts of criminal damage( 1) in Durham police force area, 2002 to 2006( 2) | ||||||||||
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | ||||||
| Area | Proceeded against | Found guilty | Proceeded against | Found guilty | Proceeded against | Found guilty | Proceeded against | Found guilty | Proceeded against | Found guilty |
| (1) Includes indictable offences for criminal damage and summary offences of criminal damage, £5,000 or less, and in addition offences under section 19 the Allotments Act 1922. (2) These data are on the principal offence basis. Note: 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. | ||||||||||
Wind Power
Mr. Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice to which wind farm proposals his Department lodged objection in each of the last three years; and for what reasons in each case. [191119]
Maria Eagle: There have been no such objections lodged.
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