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Census Act 1920

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences were recorded under section 89 of the Census Act 1920 in each year since 1997, broken down by offence; 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. [195993]

Mr. Coaker: The information requested is not available. Offences under this legislation are recorded in the ‘Other indictable or triable either way offences’ classification and cannot be separately identified from other offences within that classification. As a result, information on the percentage which resulted in court proceedings and convictions for those offences cannot be provided.

Closed Circuit Television: Licensing

Mr. MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the number of Scottish local authorities that are (a) precluded and (b) have been previously precluded for any periods since October 2007 from operating the installed closed-circuit television security networks because of delays in processing operative applications for licences by the Security Industry Authority. [196365]

Mr. Coaker [holding answer 25 March 2008]: The information necessary to make such an assessment is not available.

Mr. MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the number of applications for licences submitted by applicants resident in Scotland to the Security Industry Authority during 2007 which remain outstanding, broken down by local authority area. [196366]

Mr. Coaker [holding answer 25 March 2008]: None. The Security Industry Authority does not hold data in a form which would enable information on numbers of applications from applicants resident in Scotland or smaller areas to be readily obtained. The information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Constituencies: Correspondence

Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to locate the representations made by a constituent of the hon. Member for Vauxhall (reference 0161985); when it was first discovered that the representations had been misplaced; and if she will make a statement. [193678]

Mr. Byrne: The Border and Immigration Agency wrote to the hon. Member on 31 March 2008.

Crime and Disorder Act 1998

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences were recorded under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 in each year since 2002, broken down by offence; 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. [196020]

Mr. Coaker: The information requested is not available. Offences under this legislation are recorded in either the appropriate ‘Racially or religiously aggravated offence’ classification or in the ‘Other offences against the State and Public Order’ offence classification and cannot be separately identified from other offences within those classifications. As a result, information on the percentage which resulted in court proceedings and convictions for those offences cannot be provided.

Crime: Drugs

Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 11 March 2008, Official Report, column 339W, on crime: drugs, (1) what assessment she has made of the performance of drug enforcement authorities in restricting imports of class A drugs into the UK; [196288]

(2) whether a decision has been made to stop measuring class A drug seizure quantities for drugs specifically destined for the UK. [196289]

Mr. Coaker: Given the uncertainty of the final destination of many of the drugs which are seized overseas the Government do not attempt to estimate the amounts which were destined for the UK. The
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Serious Organised Crime Agency and HM Revenue and Customs will record in the annual reports which they publish later this year the amounts of drugs where they have been involved in the seizures.

Crimes of Violence: Greater London

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) violent crimes and (b) sanction detections for violent crimes there were in each London borough in each of the last 10 years. [195850]


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Mr. Coaker: A number of changes have been made to recorded crime in response to suggestions in the two reviews of crime statistics. One such change is that the term ‘violent crime’ is no longer used in connection with the recorded crime statistics and we now provide figures for violence against the person.

For London boroughs, offences of violence against the person recorded by the police are available from 1999-2000 and the number of sanction detections are available from 2000-01. The statistics are given in the following tables.

Table 1: Offences of violence against the person recorded and detected by means of a sanction detection by London borough: 1999-2000 to 2001-02
1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02
Borough Number of offences Number of sanction detections Number of offences Number of sanction detections Number of offences Number of sanction detections

Barking and Dagenham

3,210

(1)

3,604

550

3,941

596

Barnet

4,244

(1)

4,574

724

4,842

695

Bexley

3,151

(1)

3,209

481

3,339

613

Brent

5,407

(1)

5,775

988

5,688

914

Bromley

3,224

(1)

3,800

652

3,843

786

Camden

5,342

(1)

5,327

933

5,473

914

City of Westminster

7,396

(1)

8,483

1,848

8,734

1,788

Croydon

5,880

(1)

6,326

1,051

6,206

1,077

Ealing

6,652

(1)

6,429

750

6,842

848

Enfield

4,040

(1)

4,798

824

5,077

810

Greenwich

6,234

(1)

6,308

1,035

6,257

881

Hackney

6,655

(1)

6,320

1,129

6,702

1,150

Hammersmith and Fulham

4,683

(1)

4,365

879

4,283

919

Haringey

4,874

(1)

5,202

1,314

5,088

1,226

Harrow

2,342

(1)

2,465

665

2,658

552

Havering

2,661

(1)

2,787

552

3,225

623

Hillingdon

3,713

(1)

4,094

595

4,766

762

Hounslow

5,200

(1)

5,436

682

5,798

781

Islington

5,255

(1)

5,443

932

5,667

1,053

Kensington and Chelsea

3,294

(1)

3,314

571

3,063

643

Kingston upon Thames

2,422

(1)

2,495

415

2,667

474

Lambeth

8,244

(1)

7,904

1,064

8,232

1,179

Lewisham

5,051

(1)

5,331

1,302

5,501

1,174

Merton

2,907

(1)

2,932

507

3,153

464

Newham

7,261

(1)

7,344

969

7,550

1,166

Redbridge

3,621

(1)

3,753

585

3,721

600

Richmond upon Thames

2,081

(1)

1,991

308

2,115

423

Southwark

7,480

(1)

7,442

1,259

7,760

1,377

Sutton

1,109

(1)

2,056

393

2,451

408

Tower Hamlets

3,850

(1)

5,965

881

6,390

900

Waltham Forest

4,862

(1)

4,804

697

4,973

750

Wandsworth

5,012

(1)

4,862

693

5,002

744

Total

147,357

(1)

154,938

26,228

161,007

27,290

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.
(1) Not available.

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