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Justice

Convictions

Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people convicted in each of the last 10 years had never previously been convicted, broken down by police force area. [228247]

Maria Eagle: The following table shows figures taken from the Ministry of Justice's extract from the Police
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National Computer (PNC). It shows the number of people convicted of indictable offences in each year since 2000 who at the time of their conviction had no previous convictions recorded on the PNC. The table covers offences prosecuted by police forces in England and Wales; offences prosecuted by other authorities are not included.

These figures have been derived from the police's administrative I.T. system, which, as with any large scale recording system, is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Offenders with no previous convictions convicted for indictable offences by police force, 2000-07
number of offenders
Police Force	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Avon and Somerset	1,401	1,270	1,207	1,260	1,159	1,265	1,231	1,283
Bedfordshire	668	590	487	579	601	608	750	604
Cambridgeshire	618	684	718	702	796	951	814	842
Cheshire	1,327	1,166	1,027	909	789	935	1,011	999
City of London	171	171	180	231	256	229	237	297
Cleveland	774	662	597	735	669	609	673	729
Cumbria	553	536	499	528	580	644	578	615
Derbyshire	1,127	1,039	1,082	1,047	1,059	1,137	900	990
Devon and Cornwall	1,282	1,287	1,395	1,304	1,351	1,314	1,166	1,159
Dorset	658	642	616	629	608	610	655	666
Durham	760	736	717	627	681	796	749	710
Dyfed-Powys	607	526	544	551	435	504	446	468
Essex	1,506	1,481	1,403	1,362	1,691	1,752	1,659	1,645
Gloucestershire	535	570	435	423	433	498	487	540
Greater Manchester	3,756	3,601	3,715	3,735	4,102	4,086	3,813	3,693
Gwent	946	880	871	772	693	513	566	563
Hampshire	1,960	1,969	1,845	1,884	1,925	1,804	1,641	1,803
Hertfordshire	942	941	971	1,002	1,105	1,200	1,030	1,061
Humberside	1,150	1,114	1,156	1237	1,099	925	944	978
Kent	1,947	1,793	1,710	1,863	1,577	1,432	1,398	1,528
Lancashire	1,713	1,659	1,648	1,492	1,329	1,320	1,541	1,974
Leicestershire	1,220	1254	1,192	1,233	1,264	1,164	976	1,013
Lincolnshire	542	589	555	553	628	643	583	557
Merseyside	1847	1,748	1,883	1,964	1,867	1,702	1,676	1,966
Metropolitan Police	1,1678	11,965	13,134	12,480	11,750	11,486	11,823	12,578
Norfolk	829	785	745	773	642	693	799	782
North Wales	895	748	676,	744	787	784	849	798
North Yorkshire	850	743	749	786	754	912	787	820
Northamptonshire	677	570	517	568	626	625	548	715
Northumbria	2,115	2,102	2,021	1,903	1,742	1,618	1,650	1,572
Nottinghamshire	1,605	1,523	1,337	1,324	1,230	1,283	1,166	1,129
South Wales	1,925	2,062	1,957	1,804	1,738	1,539	1,266	1,280
South Yorkshire	1,841	1,743	1,684	1,666	1,430	1,494	1,408	1,485
Staffordshire	1,177	1,110	1,194	1,044	1,120	1,127	985	1,009
Suffolk	706	646	618	782	769	751	697	625
Surrey	565	634	562	565	557	579	602	715
Sussex	1,309	1,365	1,325	1,282	1,359	1,339	1,499	1,620
ThamesValley	1,809	1,952	1,846	1,730	1,576	2,027	2,003	1,991
Warwickshire	454	392	362	343	377	390	450	405
West Mercia	1,045	1,076	1,036	1,031	1,033	1,123	1,082	1,035
West Midlands	4,745	5106	4,924	4,581	4,152	3,401	3,773	3,779
West Yorkshire	2,777	2,454	2,463	2,496	2,649	2,340	2,115	2,162
Wiltshire	690	672	542	555	517	634	600	429
England and Wales	65,702	64,556	64,145	63,079	61,505	60,786	59,626	61,612

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