Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many cases of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) burglary, (e) theft, (f) fraud and forgery, (g) criminal damage and (h) drugs offences police cautions were given in each of the last five years; and what proportion of such cases were first offences. [219172]
Maria Eagle:
I have been asked to reply.
The number of offenders issued with a caution for (a)violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) burglary, (e) theft, (f) fraud and forgery, (g) criminal damage and (h) drugs offences in England and Wales for the years 2002 to 2006 is shown in the following table.
Data from the court proceedings database held by the Ministry of Justice cannot separately identify what proportion of cautions were first offences.
Cautions data for 2007 will be available in the autumn of 2008.
The number of defendants issued with a caution for offences relating to various types of offences in England and Wales, 2002 to 2006( 1,2,3)
Offence type
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Violence against the person
23,607
28,760
36,610
51,020
57,273
Sexual offences
1,203
1,359
1,553
1,761
1,922
Burglary
5,771
5,568
5,604
6,451
7,687
Robbery
408
422
451
622
712
Theft and handling stolen goods
54,214
54,466
61,944
67,619
72,369
Fraud and forgery
5,335
5,484
6,036
6,936
8,024
Criminal damage
3,102
3,726
5,495
7,246
9,018
Drug offences
44,922
45,707
32,621
34,390
37,426
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(1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (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 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. (3) From 1 June 2000 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and final warnings. These figures have been included in the totals. Source:
CJEAU—Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice
Police: Bureaucracy
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of time on average (a) all officers and (b) patrol officers spent on (i) incident and (ii) non-incident related paperwork in each year since 2003-04; and how long each spent on average on patrol in each year. [219154]
Mr. McNulty:
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 10 December 2007, Official Report, column 91W.
Police: Council Tax
Mr. Pickles:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was raised from the police precept in (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) each police authority in England and Wales in 1997-98; and how much is expected to be raised in 2008-09. [218291]
Mr. McNulty:
Information is set out in the following table:
Council tax requirement
£ million
Police authority
1997-98
2008-09
Avon and Somerset
25.56
85.26
Bedfordshire
9.50
27.49
Cambridgeshire
11.71
41.99
Cheshire
17.12
50.34
Cleveland
8.60
29.27
Cumbria
9.23
31.66
Derbyshire
15.09
48.05
Devon and Cornwall
26.30
85.66
Dorset
16.60
47.94
Durham
8.88
26.70
Essex
29.28
77.63
Gloucestershire
10.05
41.14
Greater Manchester
40.17
98.76
Hampshire
31.76
91.65
Hertfordshire
17.59
60.23
Humberside
13.44
44.33
Kent
28.70
79.68
Lancashire
22.86
63.39
Leicestershire
14.50
49.93
Lincolnshire(1)
13.40
54.09
Merseyside
27.03
56.68
Metropolitan
181.83
664.97
Norfolk
13.03
52.05
North Yorkshire
13.42
57.12
Northamptonshire
21.25
40.86
Northumbria
12.99
33.77
Nottinghamshire
14.92
47.63
South Yorkshire
18.87
47.04
Staffordshire
17.71
58.81
Suffolk
11.30
37.50
Surrey
15.04
92.05
Sussex
29.06
79.87
Thames Valley
40.62
123.93
Warwickshire
9.17
32.63
West Mercia
19.66
71.71
West Midlands
39.56
74.88
West Yorkshire
31.84
82.30
Wiltshire
11.78
35.59
England total
899.38
2.824.59
Dyfed-Powys
8.24
33.86
Gwent
8.67
33.70
North Wales
11.24
51.25
South Wales
19.49
63.60
Wales total
47.64
182.41
England and Wales total
947.02
3,007.00
(1) Lincolnshire police authority will be required to set a revised budget requirement and council tax following approval by the House of Commons on 9 July of an order to cap the authority in 2008-09. Source: DCLG—from English Police Authorities/WAG—from Welsh Police Authorities.
Police: Firearms
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers have received firearm injuries while on duty (a) in England and Wales and (b) broken down by police force area in each year since 1997. [219107]
Mr. McNulty:
Data on crimes recorded by the police in which a police officer on duty was injured by a firearm (excluding air weapons) from 1997-98 up to and including 2006-07 are given in the following table.
Crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales in which a police officer was injured( 1 ) by a firearm (excluding air weapons), by police force area 1997-98 to 2006-07
Police force area
Total injuries
1997-98
Metropolitan
2
Northamptonshire
1
Nottinghamshire
1
West Midlands
2
England and Wales total
6
1998-99(2)
Devon and Cornwall
2
Greater Manchester
3
Leicestershire
1
Metropolitan
5
England and Wales total
11
1999-2000
Avon and Somerset
1
Cheshire
1
City of London
1
Metropolitan
2
Staffordshire
1
West Midlands
4
England and Wales total
10
2000-01(3)
Greater Manchester
5
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Metropolitan
1
South Yorkshire
2
England and Wales total
8
2001-02
Metropolitan
1
Staffordshire
1
Warwickshire
3
West Midlands
5
England and Wales total
10
2002-03(4)
Gloucestershire
1
Metropolitan
6
Northamptonshire
2
West Midlands
3
England and Wales total
12
2003-04
Cheshire
1
Devon and Cornwall
1
Metropolitan
7
Nottinghamshire
1
West Midlands
2
West Yorkshire
2
England and Wales total
14
2004-05(5)
Avon and Somerset
2
Devon and Cornwall
1
Greater Manchester
7
Hampshire
1
Humberside
1
Metropolitan
9
West Midlands
2
England and Wales total
23
2005-06
Cheshire
2
Devon and Cornwall
3
Lancashire
1
Merseyside
1
Metropolitan
7
Nottinghamshire
1
West Midlands
4
West Yorkshire
4
England and Wales total
23
2006-07
Cheshire
1
Dyfed Powys
1
Gloucestershire
3
Greater Manchester
1
Humberside
1
Leicestershire
1
Merseyside
1
Metropolitan
4
West Midlands
5
West Yorkshire
2
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Wiltshire
1
England and Wales total
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(1) Includes fatal, serious and slight injuries. (2) There was a change in counting rules for recorded crime on 1 April 1998. (3) Numbers of some recorded crimes may have been inflated by some police forces implementing the principles of the National Crime Recording Standard before 1 April 2002. (4) The national Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by this. (5) More explicit guidelines for the classification of weapons introduced on 1 April 2004, may have increased the recording of firearm offences, particularly those committed by imitation weapons.
