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Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for drunkenness simple and drunkenness with aggravation, and the number of Penalty Notices for Disorder (PNDs) issued for “drunk and disorderly( 1) ” "drunk in a highway( 2) ” and “consumption of alcohol in a designated public place( 2) ”, England and Wales, 2007( 3,4)
Offence	Proceeded against	Found guilty	PNDs issued
Drunkenness simple	1,646	1,446	n/a
Drunkenness with aggravation	18,199	15,975	n/a
Drunk and disorderly	(1)—	(1)—	46,996
Drunk in a highway	(2)—	(2)—	2,066
Consumption of alcohol in a designated public place	(2)—	(2)—	1,544
n/a = Not applicable. (1) Included in the data for drunkenness with aggravation. (2) Included in the data for drunkenness simple. (3) These data are on the principal offence basis. (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 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: E and A Unit—Office for Criminal Justice Reform

Alcoholic Drinks: Young People

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Bury St Edmunds of 30 June 2008, Official Report, column 710WA, on alcoholic drinks: young people, how many penalty notices for disorder for the offence of selling alcohol to a person aged under 18 years were issued to persons aged 16 years and over in England and Wales in 2007, broken down by police force area; and how many such notices remain unpaid. [244969]

Jacqui Smith [holding answer 18 December 2009]: Data showing the number of penalty notices for disorder issued for the offence of “Selling alcohol to a person aged under 18” broken down into numbers paid, court hearing requests and fine registered in England and Wales, in 2007 by police force area are in the following table.

The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offence for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.

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Number of penalty notices for disorder paid in full( 1) and unpaid( 2) relating to all persons aged 16 and over, for the offence of “Selling alcohol to a person aged under 18” by police force area and outcome, England and Wales, 2007( 3, 4)
Force	Number paid in full( 1)	Total unpaid( 2)
Avon and Somerset	54	6
Bedfordshire	12	1
Cambridgeshire	21	1
Cheshire	24	2
Cleveland	57	8
Cumbria	38	2
Derbyshire	79	22
Devon and Cornwall	62	7
Dorset	34	1
Durham	24	1
Essex	104	7
Gloucestershire	80	6
Greater Manchester	126	15
Hampshire	185	20
Hertfordshire	60	7
Humberside	81	17
Kent	19	4
Lancashire	154	36
Leicestershire	127	23
Lincolnshire	46	8
London, City of	0	0
Merseyside	148	27
Metropolitan Police	270	71
Norfolk	28	8
Northamptonshire	18	4
Northumbria	56	11
North Yorkshire	20	5
Nottinghamshire	136	32
South Yorkshire	132	27
Staffordshire	60	7
Suffolk	17	3
Surrey	63	9
Sussex	99	20
Thames Valley	117	14
Warwickshire	34	3
West Mercia West	34	2
Midlands West	120	15
Yorkshire	137	24
Wiltshire	22	2
Dyfed-Powys	19	1
Gwent	61	10
North Wales	50	13
South Wales	46	7
England & Wales	3,074	509
(1) Includes PNDs paid in full within 21 days and paid in full outside 21 days. (2 )Includes PNDs fine registered, these cancelled, those where a court hearing has been requested, those for potential prosecution and those where the outcome is unknown (3 )Includes the following statute and corresponding offence description Sale of alcohol anywhere to a person under 18. s. 146(1) of the 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 police. 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.

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions of people aged 10 to 17 years for being drunk and disorderly there were in (a) Stockport metropolitan borough, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) the North West in each year since 1997. [246071]

Mr. Alan Campbell: The number of persons aged 10 to 17 years proceeded against at magistrates courts for being drunk and disorderly in the Greater Manchester
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police force area and the north west region, from 1997 to 2007, the latest available, are given in table 1.

The statistics for those persons proceeded against relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.

Available information on the number penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) issued to persons aged 16 to 17 for being drunk and disorderly are given in table 2 from 2004, when the scheme commenced, to 2007.

Court proceedings and PND data collected centrally are available at police force area level only; therefore data for Stockport metropolitan borough cannot be supplied.

Table 1: The number of persons aged 10 to 17 proceeded against at magistrates courts for offences of being drunk and disorderly( 1 ) in the Greater Manchester police force area and the north west region( 2) , 1997 to 2007( 3, 4)
	Greater Manchester police force area	North west region
	Persons aged 10-17
1997	55	556
1998	65	489
1999	62	501
2000	106	587
2001	93	580
2002	77	554
2003	67	568
2004	47	416
2005	25	230
2006	21	252
2007	31	344
(1 )Data includes the following offence descriptions and corresponding statutes: Being found drunk in a highway or other public place, whether a building or not, or on licensed premises—Licensing Act 1872, section 12; Being guilty while drunk of disorderly behaviour—Criminal Justice Act 1967, section 91. (2 )Includes, Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside police force areas. (3 )These data are on the principal offence basis. (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 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: Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Evidence and Analysis Unit.

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