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Police: Manpower
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration was given to the rules regarding the local election purdah period prior to taking the decision to make the announcement on police numbers. [201827]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 25 April 2008]: The Home Office attaches great importance to adherence to the rules governing elections, and gave this issue careful consideration in this case.
Research Development and Statistics Directorate
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were employed in her Department's Research Development and Statistics Directorate in each year since 1997; and what the Directorate's budget was in each of those years. [200357]
Meg Hillier: The available information on budgets and numbers of staff in the social research and statistics teams since 1997 is shown in the following table. Please note that since 2004 the Research and Statistics teams have been embedded within each Home Office business area rather than within a single Research, Development and Statistics Directorate.
| Research development and statistics teams -staff in post | Social science budgets in the Home Office (£ million) | |
| (1) Not separately available. Notes: 1. The source of the staff in post figures are form 1997-98 and 2003-4 Home Office Annual Reports, from 2004-5-2006-7 returns to the Office of National Statistics. 2. 2006-7 figures exclude staff and resources transferring to DCLG. 2007-08 figures exclude staff and resources that transferred to Ministry of Justice in May 2007. 3. 1997-98 to 2005-6 budget figures for are Social Science and Statistics budget estimates— for 2006-7 the figures are budget outturn for embedded RDS teams. | ||
Road Traffic Offences
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in England were convicted for (a) motoring offences that resulted in a fatality and (b) careless driving in each of the last three years, broken down by region. [211357]
Mr. Coaker: Available information held by the Ministry of Justice, from 2004 to 2006 (latest available), is provided in Tables A and B. The data in Table A relate to offences where a death is an integral part of the offence, not to other offences in which a death might have occurred. The circumstances of such offences are not recorded.
2007 data should be available by the end of 2008.
| Table A: Findings of guilt at all courts for motoring offences of causing death( 1) , by Government office region, England, 2004-06 | |||
| Number of offences | |||
| Government office region | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| (1) Offences under Road Traffic Act section 1 as amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 and Criminal Justice Act 1993 section 67. Section 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 as added by the Road Traffic Act 1991 section 3 and amended by the Criminal justice Act 1993 s. 67. Then Act 1968 section 12A as added by the Aggravated Vehicle taking Act 1992 section 1. Note: 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. | |||
| Table B: Findings of guilt at all courts for motoring offences of careless driving( 1) , by Government office region, England, 2004-06 | |||
| Number of offences | |||
| Government office region | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| (1) Offences under sections 3,12 (1), 26 (2), 33 (3), 34 and 168 of the Road Traffic Act 1988; sections 59 (1) (a) (3) (a) and (6) of the Police Reform Act 2002. Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, RR. 19,104-107 and 109 and 110. Note: 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. | |||
Road Traffic Offences: Lancashire
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions for road traffic offences of (i) failing to stop and failing to report an accident and (ii) driving without due care and attention there were in Lancashire in each of the last five years. [210906]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 13 June 2008]: Available information held by the Ministry of Justice, from 2002 to 2006 which is the latest available, is provided in tables A and B.
2007 data should be available by the end of 2008.
| Table A: Proceedings at magistrates courts and findings of guilt at all courts for accident offences( 1) , within Lancashire police force area, 2002-06 | ||
| Number of offences | ||
| Number of prosecutions | Number of convictions | |
| (1) Offences under s. 170 (4) and (7) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 Notes: 1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. 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. | ||
| Table B: Proceedings at magistrates courts and findings of guilt at all courts for driving without due care and attention( 1) , within Lancashire police force area, 2002-06 | ||
| Number of offences | ||
| Number of prosecutions | Number of convictions | |
| (1) Offences under s. 3 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 Notes: 1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. 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. | ||
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