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The following table shows how many offenders (released from prisons or commencing community sentences) had received at least one previous court conviction broken down by the number of previous convictions.
| Offenders released from prison | Offenders commencing court orders | ||
Shoplifting
James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many people (a) were cautioned for, (b) received a penalty notice for disorder relating to and (c) were convicted of shoplifting in 2007; [224102]
(2) how many penalty notices for disorder were issued in 2007, broken down by (a) offence committed and (b) police force area. [224103]
Maria Eagle: The information requested for 2007 will be available when it is published at the end of November 2008.
Women’s Prisons: Crimes of Violence
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many violent incidents have been recorded in women's prisons over the last five years; and how many assaults on staff have been recorded in women's prisons in that time. [224097]
Maria Eagle: The term ‘violent incident’ is not used in the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) data. The nearest equivalent to ‘violent incidents’ in NOMS data is incidents of assault. Information on incidents of assault is set out in the following table but is subject to important qualifications. Assault data cover a range of behaviour and may include threatening behaviour, projection of bodily fluids, other non-contact incidents and allegations. Information on assault incidents may involve more than one assailant or more than one victim. In a proportion of incidents only the victim is known.
The Prison Service incident reporting system processes high volumes of data which are constantly being updated. The numbers provide an indication of overall numbers but should not be interpreted as absolute.
| Assaults in women's prisons over the past five years | |
| Number | |
| Note: The numbers supplied refer to the number of individual assault incidents. | |
Assaults on staff in women's prisons over the past five years
Assault information is recorded at establishment level where it is categorised into one of four categories: prisoner on prisoner, prisoner on officer, prisoner on other and other (including assaults or allegations of assault by non prisoners). The recorded incidents of assaults on prison officers are not completely exclusive to officers; establishment recording sometimes includes assaults on other prison staff in this category. The category prisoner on other contains few entries but these may include prison staff as well as visitors, legal visitors etc. This reply combines prisoner on officer and prisoner on other data categories.
| Number | |
Women’s Prisons: Equipment
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his policy is on the routine carrying of batons by prison officers in women's prisons. [224095]
Maria Eagle: Current Prison Service policy is that batons are not routinely carried by prison officers in the women’s estate, the young people’s estate or the open estate. However, they may be used in these areas as part of planned interventions by control and restraint teams in response to very serious incidents of disorder. The review into the use of batons in the women’s and open estate is currently under way.
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the recommendations were of the review on the use of batons in women’s prisons; if he will place in the Library a copy of the conclusions of the review; and what alternatives are under examination to address violence in women’s prisons other than equipping staff with batons. [224096]
Maria Eagle: The review into the use of batons in the women’s and open estates is under way and due to report at the end of the year. A copy of the report of the review will be placed in the Library on its conclusion. A number of accredited programmes for women have been developed, or are in advanced stages of development, which are appropriate to violence reduction in the women’s estate.
Northern Ireland
Departmental ICT
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information technology projects initiated by his Department have been cancelled prior to completion in the last five years; and what the cost of each such project was to the public purse. [221707]
Paul Goggins: In the last five years no information technology projects initiated by the Northern Ireland Office have been cancelled prior to completion.
Homicide
Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many persons were killed by a current or former partner in (a) A District Command Unit area, (b) B District Command Unit area and (c) Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years, broken down by (i) sex and (ii) age of victim. [207760]
Paul Goggins: The Chief Constable has provided the following answer:
The following tables detail the number of recorded murders with a domestic motivation as requested for the period 2004-05 to 2007-08. Figures prior to 2004 were counted and categorised according to Home Office
Counting Rules, therefore any crime figures with domestic motivations from 2004-05 onwards are not comparable with those collected in previous years.
| Recorded crimes with a domestic motivation: Offences of Murder( 1) A and B Districts and Northern Ireland 2004-05 to 2007-08 | |||
| 2004-05 | |||
| District | Number of murders | Age/Gender of victim | Clearance Method |
| Source: Central Statistics Unit, PSNI | |||
| 2005-06 | |||
| District | Number of murders | Age/Gender of victim | Clearance Method |
| Source: Central Statistics Unit, PSNI | |||
| 2006-07 | |||
| District | Number of murders | Age/Gender of victim | Clearance Method |
| 0 | — | — | |
| Source: Central Statistics Unit, PSNI | |||
| 2007-08 | |||
| District | Number of murders( 1) | Age/Gender of victim | Clearance Method |
| (1) The figures include those murders where the relationship identified was spouse -wife, spouse - husband, common law wife, common law husband, boyfriend, girlfriend (this is the terminology used in PSNI crime recording system). It also includes where the offence resulted in a clearance method of charge/summons or offender died before proceedings. Source: Central Statistics Unit, PSNI | |||
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