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| Drug offences | Other (excluding motoring) | Motoring offences | Summary motoring offences | Summary non-motoring offences | All offences | |
| (1) Those aged between 10 and 17 at time of sentence Notes: 1. These data have been supplied on the principal offence basis 2. These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. 3. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Source: OMS Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice | ||||||
Young People: Remand in Custody
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) 15, (b) 16 and (c) 17 year olds were on remand in each police force area in 2007-08; and how many subsequently served a prison sentence. [256511]
Mr. Hanson: At 30 June 2007, the number of unsentenced (a) 15, (b) 16, and (c) 17-year-olds detained in all prison establishments in England and Wales were as shown in the following table:
| Number | |
These totals comprise the numbers held untried or convicted unsentenced and include both males and females for 17-year-olds; there are no 15 or 16-year-old female prisoners detained on remand in prison establishments in England and Wales.
This table is taken from table 7.11 of the Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2007, a copy of which can be found in the House of Commons Library and which can also be found at the following website:
I also refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer he was given to him on 1 May 2008, Official Report, column 662W. A breakdown by police force area is not available.
During 2007 the proportion of all prisoners held on remand whose court proceedings resulted in immediate custodial sentence was 55 per cent. for males and 47 per cent. for females. This information is not available for 15 to 17-year-olds separately.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
ACAS: Parking
Mr. Pickles:
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform whether the workplace parking charges being introduced by Nottingham City Council will be required to be paid in whole or in part by members of staff in respect of (a) Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service offices and (b) East Midlands
Regional Development Agency offices located within the workplace parking charging zone. [253773]
Mr. McFadden: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport on 4 February 2009, Official Report, column reference 1189W.
Apprentices
Mr. Willetts: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform with reference to the answer of 2 June 2008, Official Report, column 769W, on apprentices, what steps are being taken to increase the number of apprentices employed by his Department. [251737]
Mr. McFadden: In our response of 2 June 2008 we were not able to state how many apprentices we had as responsibility was devolved to each business area. We have since established a corporate apprenticeship offer for BERR staff who do not have degrees.
BERR is promoting a new apprenticeship offer for staff in business administration, customer service, information technology, team leadership and management. Awareness sessions are running for staff and their managers throughout February, with the first programmes starting in April. Our aim is to recruit 20 apprentices at either level 2 or level 3 during the first year, and currently have one member of staff on the apprenticeship pathfinder.
We are working together with our agencies to help them promote apprenticeships for their staff. Currently Companies House has a 61 staff studying for apprenticeships (35 at level 2 and 26 at level 3).
Bankruptcy
Mr. Newmark: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many (a) bankruptcy orders and (b) individual voluntary agreements were recorded in (i) Braintree, (ii) Essex and (iii) England in each year since 1997. [256842]
Mr. McFadden: Table 1 as follows shows the number of (a) bankruptcy orders and (b) individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs) recorded in (i) Braintree, (ii) Essex and (iii) England in each year from 2000 to 2007. Regional figures are not yet available for 2008, nor for years prior to 2000.
| Table 1. | |||||||||
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | ||
| Notes: 1. Classifying insolvent individuals into administrative geographies is done using the postcode that the person provides. 2. Inaccurate or missing postcodes mean that the numbers in the table will be subject to an element of missing data. Nationally, this proportion has been decreasing from about 12 per cent. in 2000 to less than 4 per cent. in 2007. 3. Figures for Essex cover Southend-on-Sea, Thurrock and Essex CC. | |||||||||
Bankruptcy: Bexley
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many businesses in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Bexley have been declared bankrupt in each of the last 12 months. [250743]
Mr. McFadden: Self-employed traders may be declared bankrupt (or enter into an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA)), however, registered companies are the subject of ‘liquidation’ (compulsory liquidation or creditors voluntary liquidation (CVL)).
It is not currently possible, from information held centrally in electronic format, to count the number of insolvent companies in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency or the London borough of Bexley.
However Table 1 shows the number of self employed bankrupts in each month of 2007 (the latest for which information is currently available for Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and the London borough of Bexley), derived from postcodes provided by bankrupt individuals(1, 2).
(1 )Classifying bankrupts into administrative geographies is done using the postcode that the bankrupt individual provides. The use of this in assigning an individual to a borough is thus only as reliable as the postcode information provided.
(2 )In particular, inaccurate or missing postcodes mean that the numbers in the following table will be subject to an element of missing data. Nationally, this proportion has been decreasing from about 12 per cent. in 2000 to less than 4 per cent. in 2007.
| Table 1. Self employed bankrupts in 2007 | ||
| Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency | London borough of Bexley | |
Similar information is not available for individual voluntary arrangements entered into by the self-employed.
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