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| N umber of persons issued with a penalty notice for disorder for the offence sale of alcohol to person under 18 in the Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire police force areas for the years 2004 to 2006( 1,2,3) | |||
| Sale of alcohol to person under 18 | |||
| Force | 2004 | 2005( 4) | 2006( 4) |
| (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Data include the following offence descriptions and corresponding statute: Sale of alcohol anywhere to a person under 18. s.146(1) of the Licensing Act 2003 (3) 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, other agencies, 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. (4) New legislative reference with effect from, 24 November 2005 on implementation of Licensing Act 2003 Source: Court proceedings data held by RDS—Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice | |||
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many retailers were prosecuted in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England and Wales for the illegal sale of alcohol to people under the age of 18 years in each year since 1997. [195326]
Mr. Coaker: Information on the court proceedings database cannot be broken down by constituency or district level, therefore information has been provided by police force area.
The number of defendants proceeded against in Northumbria police force area, the North East Region, and England and Wales for the sale of alcohol to persons under the age of 18 years from 1997 to 2006 can be viewed in the following table.
| Number of defendants proceeded against in magistrates courts for the sale of alcohol to persons under the age of 18 years in Northumbria police force area, the North East Region, and England and Wales for the years 1997 to 2006( 1, 2, 3, 4) | ||||||||||
| Proceeded against | ||||||||||
| Force/region/area | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Data include the following offence descriptions and corresponding statutes: Holder of occasional permission or agent knowingly selling intoxicating liquor to person under 18 Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Act 1983 S.4(1)(a), Licensing Act S.169A and 169B, as added by Licensing (Young Persons) Act 2000 S.1 Wholesaler selling intoxicating liquor to a person under 18 Licensing Act 1964 S.181 A(1) as added by Licensing Act 1988 S.17. Sale of alcohol to a person under 18 Licensing Act 2003 S.146(1) Allow sale of alcohol to an individual under 18 Licensing Act 2003 S.147(1) and (5). (3) Staffordshire police force were only able to supply a 9 per cent. sample of data for magistrates courts proceedings covering one full week in each quarter for 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust at a detailed level and are not included in the England and Wales figures. (4) 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, other agencies 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. Source: Court proceedings data held by RDS, Office for Criminal Justice Reform, Ministry of Justice. | ||||||||||
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals in (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) Cambridgeshire were (i) cautioned and (ii) fined for selling alcohol to underage persons in each year since 2001; and if she will make a statement. [192386]
Mr. Coaker: Information held on the court proceedings and PND databases cannot be broken down by constituency, the information has been provided for police force area.
There were no persons issued with a caution for the offence of selling alcohol to persons under the age of 18 years in Cambridgeshire police force area for the years 2001 to 2006.
The number of persons fined at all courts for the offence of selling alcohol to persons under the age of 18 years in Cambridgeshire police force area for the years 2001 to 2006 can be viewed in table 1.
In addition to court fines, police can issue an ‘on the spot fine’ or a penalty notice for disorder (PND) for the offence of selling alcohol to persons under the age of 18. The number of persons issued with PND for the offence in Cambridgeshire police force area for the years 2004 to 2006 can be viewed in table2. The PND scheme was rolled out to all police forces in England and Wales in 2004.
| Number of persons fined at all courts for offences relating to certain alcohol offences in the Cambridgeshire police force area for the years 2001 to 2006( 1, 2, 3) | |
| Fines | |
| (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Data include the following offence descriptions and corresponding statutes: 14203—Holder of occasional permission or his agent knowingly selling to, knowingly allow consumption by or allowing any person to sell, intoxicating liquor to a person under 18. Selling etc. intoxicating liquor to person under 18 for consumption on the premises. Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Act 1983 Schedule (Sec. 3) para 4(1). Licensing Act 1964 Sec. 169(1). 14379—Sale of alcohol to a person Under 18 Licensing Act 2003 S.146(1). 14352—Wholesaler selling intoxicating liquor to a person under 18. Licensing Act 1964 Sec. 181A(l) as added by Licensing Act 1988 Sec. 17. 14380—Allow sale of alcohol to an individual under 18. Licensing Act 2003 Sec 147(1) & (5). (3 )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, other agencies, 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. Note: The Licensing Act 2003 came into force on 24 November 2005. Source: Court proceedings data held by RDS—Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice Our Ref: IOS 159-08 (Table 1). | |
| N umber of persons issued with a penalty notice for disorder for the offence Sale of alcohol to person under 18 in the Cambridgeshire police force area for the years 2004 to 2006( 1, 2, 3, 4) | |
| Sale of alcohol to person under 18 | |
| (1 )These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Data include the following offence descriptions and corresponding statute: Sale of alcohol anywhere to a person under 18. s.146(1) of the Licensing Act 2003. (3 )New legislative reference with effect from 24 November 2005 on implementation of Licensing Act 2003. (4) 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, other agencies, 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. Source: Court proceedings data held by RDS—Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice. Our Ref: IOS 159-08 (Table 2) | |
Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many shop keepers in North Kent have received fixed penalty notices for selling alcohol to under 18-year-olds in each of the last five years. [191414]
Mr. Coaker: The number of Penalty Notices for Disorder (PNDs) issued for the offence of selling alcohol to an under 18-year-old in the Kent Police Force area has been provided in the following table. Those PNDs which were issued in the North Kent area cannot be identified as data are not collected to this level of detail.
| N umber of Persons issued with a Penalty Notice for Disorder for the offence of selling alcohol to a person under the age of 18 years in Kent police force area, 2004 to 2006( 1, 2, 3) | |
| Sale of alcohol anywhere to a person under 18 | |
| (1) PND data are a count of all penalty notices for disorder issued during the year. (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 police forces and courts. 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) Data include the following offence descriptions and corresponding statutes: Sale of alcohol anywhere to a person under 18 5.146(1) of the Licensing Act 2003 (4) November to December. Source: Court proceedings data held by CJEA - Office for Criminal Justice Reform - Ministry of Justice. | |
Asylum
Mr. Clappison:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many failed asylum seekers were removed in each month since 1 January 2005; what the monthly predicted number of unfounded asylum applications was for each such month; in how many months the Government met their tipping point
policy since the policy was introduced; and if she will make a statement on the future of the tipping point target. [206271]
Mr. Byrne: Monthly removals figures can be found in the quarterly statistics publications at the following address:
Levels of predicted unfounded asylum applications and whether the tipping point target has been met for 2004, 2005 and 2006 can be found on the UK Border Agency website at the following address:
Monthly information for the tipping point target was not available prior to January 2006.
The 2007 data are not yet available.
Automatic Number Plate Recognition: Ports
Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 29 April 2008, Official Report, column 275W, on ports: automatic number plate recognition, whether there are any automatic number plate recognition systems in use at British ports; and whether any are configured to read foreign number plates. [206608]
Mr. Coaker: I refer my right hon. Friend to the reply given to him on 2 June 2008, Official Report, column 743W.
On the latter point, automatic number plate recognition is a well-established technology that allows vehicles observed by camera to have their registration mark ‘read’ using pattern recognition software. This technology has the ability to recognise the majority of foreign vehicle number plates. However, it is not possible to specify all the number plates that can or cannot be read as some countries' number plates contain unrecognisable characters.
Crime
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences were recorded per 1,000 population in (a) England and Wales and (b) each police force area in each year since 1997, broken down by type of offence. [200478]
Mr. Coaker: Data on rates per 1,000 population for each offence group and for each police force area are available from 2001-02 and are given in the tables placed in the House Library.
As a result of the findings of two independent reviews of crime statistics in 2006, a number of changes have been made to the classifications of offences. Therefore all of the offence categories shown in the tables are based on the new classifications. Providing data for earlier years, where the requested data are not held on electronic databases, would entail disproportionate cost.
Departmental Equality
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether her Department met the Civil Service diversity targets set out on page 51 of Cabinet Office Annual Report 2007 by April 2008. [204716]
Mr. Byrne: The 2007-08 employment monitoring report is not due to be published until autumn of this year. The status of the Home Office in respect of the Cabinet Office diversity targets, as set out in ‘10 Point Plan on creating a diverse civil service’, is shown in the following table. This is taken from information collected by the Office for National Statistics as at April 2007.
| Proportion of staff in diversity categories | ||
| Percentage | ||
| SCS | Home Office | Whitehall 2008 PSA target |
| Note: The percentages shown in relation to ethnicity and disability are given as a percentage of the ‘known’ data in relation to Home Office HQ staff as at 31 March 2007; this excludes the high level of ‘unknowns’. | ||
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