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Bigamy

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences of bigamy were recorded in each year since 1997; and what percentage of these offences (a) resulted in court proceedings against suspected perpetrators, (b) led to a conviction and (c) resulted in a sanction detection. [196015]

Mr. Coaker: The information is not available in the form requested.

Table 1 gives the number of offences of bigamy recorded by the police and the number detected by means of a sanction detection. Table 2 shows the numbers of defendants proceeded against and found guilty at all courts for bigamy for the years 1997 to 2006, and is taken from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform.

Recorded crime and court proceedings statistics are from two different databases and recorded in quite different ways. Recorded crime data are provided on a financial year basis and count offences whereas court proceedings data are on a calendar year basis and count offenders. Therefore, these two separate data-sets are not directly comparable.

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Table 1: Offences of bigamy recorded by the police and detected by means of a sanction detection—1997 to 2006-07
	Number of offences	Number of sanction detections
1997	75	n/a
1997-98	106	n/a
1998-99	129	n/a
1999-2000	83	n/a
2000-01	80	n/a
2001-02	74	33
2002-03	88	38
2003-04	71	47
2004-05	104	44
2005-06	101	47
2006-07	61	37
n/a = Not available

Table 2: Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates' courts and found guilty at all courts for bigamy offence, England and Wales 1997 to 2006( 1, 2, 3)
Offence	Proceeded against	Found guilty
1997	22	16
1998	30	18
1999	40	28
2000	17	12
2001	23	17
2002	31	16
2003	29	20
2004	22	22
2005	28	21
2006	23	11
(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) The found guilty column can often exceed the number proceeded against when a conviction takes place in a different month to when the proceeding was originally brought, or for a different offence.

Burglary: Greater London

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) burglaries and (b) sanction detections for burglaries there were in each London borough in each of the last 10 years. [195851]

Mr. Coaker: Offences of burglary recorded by the police and the number of sanction detections by London borough are available from 2000-01 and are given in the following tables.

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Table 1 : Offences of burglary recorded and detected by means of a sanction detection by London borough, 2000-01 and 2001-02
Number
	2000-01		2001-02
Borough	Offences	Sanction detections	Offences	Sanction detections
Barking and Dagenham	1,970	132	2,220	149
Barnet	4,107	438	3,954	546
Bexley	2,583	379	2,394	186
Brent	4,441	404	4,099	471
Bromley	3,263	272	3,580	278
Camden	5,305	707	5,857	765
City of Westminster	5,403	563	5,646	666
Croydon	3,779	392	4,131	498
Ealing	4,637	311	4,533	404
Enfield	3,973	514	4,411	349
Greenwich	3,050	399	2,794	304
Hackney	4,298	667	4,287	518
Hammersmith and Fulham	3,076	263	2,789	334
Haringey	4,159	430	4,803	444
Harrow	2,791	185	2,623	200
Havering	2,356	120	2,567	166
Hillingdon	4,085	213	3,643	297
Hounslow	3,415	253	3,192	261
Islington	4,292	552	4,567	508
Kensington and Chelsea	3,555	306	2,826	255
Kingston upon Thames	1,349	139	1,180	144
Lambeth	6,150	400	6,974	453
Lewisham	3,287	688	3,490	488
Merton	1,792	114	1,967	189
Newham	3,460	202	3,886	263
Redbridge	2,798	191	2,899	186
Richmond upon Thames	2,384	161	2,174	201
Southwark	4,235	428	5,016	676
Sutton	1,471	111	1,820	223
Tower Hamlets	3,714	431	3,262	434
Waltham Forest	3,123	314	4,012	304
Wandsworth	4,023	272	4,352	372
Total	112,324	10,951	115,948	11,532
Note: Figures in this table were prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. Figures before and after that date are not directly comparable.

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