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Table 2: Number of prosecutions and convictions for drug offences for persons aged 10 to 15 years old for the calendar years 2002 to 2006 by police district command unit
	2002		2003		2004
	Prosecutions	Convictions	Prosecutions	Convictions	Prosecutions	Convictions
Antrim	0	0	0	0	1	1
Ards	0	0	0	0	1	1
Armagh	0	0	0	0	1	1
Ballymena	0	0	0	0	1	0
Belfast East	0	0	1	1	0	0
Belfast North	0	0	1	1	1	1
Belfast South	1	0	0	0	1	1
Belfast West	1	1	0	0	1	1
Carrickfergus	0	0	0	0	0	0
Castlereagh	1	1	0	0	0	0
Colerame	0	0	1	1	1	1
Cookstown	0	0	1	1	0	0
Craigavon	0	0	0	0	1	1
Foyle	0	0	2	1	0	0
Limavady	0	0	2	1	0	0
Lisburn	0	0	1	1	1	1
Newry and Mourne	0	0	0	0	2	2
Newtownabbey	0	0	0	0	0	0
North Down	1	1	0	0	0	0
Omagh	0	0	0	0	0	0
Northern Ireland total	4	3	9	7	12	11

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	2005		2006
	Prosecutions	Convictions	Prosecutions	Convictions
Antrim	0	0	0	0
Ards	2	2	1	1
Armagh	0	0	0	0
Ballymena	1	1	1	1
Belfast East	0	0	0	0
Belfast North	0	0	2	2
Belfast South	3	3	1	1
Belfast West	0	0	1	1
Carrickfergus	0	0	2	2
Castlereagh	0	0	0	0
Colerame	0	0	0	0
Cookstown	0	0	0	0
Craigavon	0	0	0	0
Foyle	1	1	0	0
Limavady	0	0	1	1
Lisburn	0	0	1	1
Newry and Mourne	1	1	0	0
Newtownabbey	0	0	1	1
North Down	1	1	0	0
Omagh	1	1	0	0
Northern Ireland total	10	10	11	11

These tables of statistics are not directly comparable as statistics on charges are compiled by the PSNI on a financial year basis, and statistics on convictions are compiled by the courts on a calendar year basis.

Missing Persons

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many persons registered as missing in Northern Ireland have been missing for (a) less than one year and (b) more than five years; and what percentage these figures represent of the total number of persons missing. [194749]

Paul Goggins: Missing persons are dealt with at district level. The information requested could not be provided without conducting a full examination of the records of each district, which could be carried out only at disproportionate cost.

However, an exercise conducted for the Northern Ireland Policing Board in November 2007 calculated the number of missing persons reported in each year since 2002 as follows:

	Number
2007(1)	581
2006	642
2005	689
2004	684
2003	668
2002	437
(1 )Up until November 2007.

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