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Police: Translation Services

Mr. Moss: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the costs of providing translation services in each police authority area of England and Wales were in each of the last two years. [187206]

Mr. McNulty: This information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

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Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people have been (a) proceeded against for and (b) convicted of failing to disclose information in encrypted form under section 53 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000; [200550]

(2) how many prosecutions and convictions there have been under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 for withholding passwords and encryption keys to hard drives since that provision entered into force. [200588]

Jacqui Smith [holding answer 23 April 2008]: These provisions came into force on 1 October 2007 and to date eight section 49 notices have been served, four of which were in terrorism related cases. In these four cases two people have been charged with the offence of failing to comply with a section 49 notice, and the appropriate investigating authorities are also considering what action to take in regard to the other two terrorist related cases. These cases have yet to come before the courts.

In two of the remaining (non-terrorism related cases) the encryption keys have been disclosed.

Robbery

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many robberies there were in each police force area in each year since 1997. [200390]

Mr. Coaker: The information requested is given in the following tables.

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Table 1: Robbery offences recorded by the police by police force area—1997 to 2001-02
Number of offences
Police force area	1997	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02
Avon and Somerset	1,562	1,831	2,381	2,765	4,889
Bedfordshire	531	530	615	663	957
British Transport Police	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Cambridgeshire	350	437	548	539	679
Cheshire	319	397	466	486	472
Cleveland	507	908	839	932	1,264
Cumbria	101	119	90	94	143
Derbyshire	396	504	584	773	1,029
Devon and Cornwall	389	462	487	452	474
Dorset	206	205	241	309	334
Durham	142	172	236	231	284
Dyfed-Powys	34	42	28	23	26
Essex	438	523	626	700	920
Gloucestershire	369	273	291	363	498
Greater Manchester	6,296	7,632	8,634	9,918	11,027
Gwent	156	173	216	244	215
Hampshire	554	588	732	794	872
Hertfordshire	289	250	420	508	678
Humberside	757	839	950	999	1,190
Kent	709	712	827	1,000	1,003
Lancashire	845	981	1,058	1,224	1,608
Leicestershire	880	967	1,023	1,067	1,167
Lincolnshire	107	149	178	191	251
London, City of	34	29	49	53	46
Merseyside	2,141	2,484	2,663	2,405	3,155
Metropolitan Police	27,386	26,330	36,317	40,992	53,547
Norfolk	189	220	297	330	401
Northamptonshire	415	443	481	604	877
Northumbria	1,260	1,347	1,389	1,381	1,390
North Wales	112	127	146	163	194
North Yorkshire	198	170	212	186	291
Nottinghamshire	1,145	1,312	1,768	2,050	2,725
South Wales	509	511	519	460	595
South Yorkshire	946	979	1,122	1,438	1,952
Staffordshire	498	509	697	796	963
Suffolk	141	140	223	177	289
Surrey	192	171	224	456	519
Sussex	681	939	1,020	1,241	1,250
Thames Valley	1,256	1,327	1,659	2,147	2,894
Warwickshire	146	170	224	252	370
West Mercia	287	351	359	423	646
West Midlands	6,737	7,315	10,092	11,351	13,322
West Yorkshire	2,698	3,072	3,088	3,781	5,674
Wiltshire	164	195	258	193	279
England and Wales	63,072	66,835	84,277	95,154	121,359
n/a = not available Note: Figures in this table are prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002 They are directly therefore not comparable with those for later years.

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