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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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