Mr. Sanders:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what guidance her Department provides to other Government departments on best practice for departments and their agencies in making grants. [281236]
Mr. Byrne:
I have been asked to reply.
Managing Public Money is the authoritative guide to ethics in the use of public funds, setting out the main principles for dealing with resources used by public sector organisations in the UK. Guidance on the provision of grants is contained in Managing Public Money Annex 5.1:
Mr. Sanders:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fines have been issued in each police authority area for refusing to obey an instruction to stop drinking in a Designated Public Place order area in each of the last five years. [281269]
Mr. Alan Campbell:
The number of fines issued for refusing to obey an instruction to stop drinking in a designated public place order is in the following table.
PND data are not included in the table. The number of PNDs issued for failure to comply with a requirement by a constable within a designated public place order are as follows: 485 in 2004, 712 in 2005, 1,061 in 2006 and 1,544 in 2007.
Data for 2008 will be available in autumn 2009.
Number of fines issued and average fine amount by police force area (PFA) for drinking in a designated public place( 1) , 2002-07
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
PFA
Fines issued
Average fine (£)
Fines issued
Average fine (£)
Fines issued
Average fine (£)
Fines issued
Average fine (£)
Fines issued
Average fine (£)
Fines issued
Average fine (£)
Avon and Somerset
1
60.00
2
30.00
4
42.50
1
10.00
3
41.67
4
96.25
Bedfordshire
2
42.50
12
26.67
2
40.00
9
31.67
5
40.00
4
57.50
Cambridgeshire
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
50.00
1
50.00
Cheshire
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
50.00
Cleveland
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
5
85.00
6
66.67
Cumbria
1
30.00
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
50.00
0
n/a
Derbyshire
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
100.00
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
Devon and Cornwall
1
30.00
4
51.25
4
32.50
3
23.33
0
n/a
0
n/a
Dorset
1
50.00
0
n/a
1
100.00
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
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Dyfed-Powys
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
75.00
0
n/a
0
n/a
Essex
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
50.00
Gloucestershire
0
n/a
1
25.00
2
20.00
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
Greater Manchester
1
50.00
1
20.00
4
45.00
3
123.33
0
n/a
1
50.00
Gwent
0
n/a
0
n/a
4
107.50
0
n/a
6
37.50
3
83.33
Hampshire
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
50.00
0
n/a
1
100.00
1
80.00
Humberside
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
50.00
Kent
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
Lancashire
0
n/a
3
43.33
2
35.00
1
100.00
0
n/a
0
n/a
Leicestershire
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
2
45.00
0
n/a
0
n/a
Merseyside
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
4
50.00
3
58.33
Metropolitan Police
11
48.18
23
(2)40.00
13
40.38
12
72.92
10
45.50
5
49.00
Norfolk
0
n/a
7
25.71
2
22.50
2
50.00
2
30.00
4
58.75
North Wales
1
30.00
0
n/a
2
75.00
2
75.00
1
50.00
3
60.00
Northumbria
1
50.00
2
105.00
3
76.67
8
62.50
3
50.00
9
50.00
Nottinghamshire
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
40.00
2
47.50
South Wales
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
50.00
0
n/a
1
100.00
0
n/a
South Yorkshire
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
75.00
2
37.50
Staffordshire
0
n/a
3
25.33
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
Suffolk
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
2
52.50
Sussex
1
50.00
1
20.00
5
55.00
6
43.33
7
37.14
4
37.50
Thames Valley
0
n/a
9
40.00
18
44.17
5
55.00
5
54.00
3
58.33
West Mercia
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
5
118.00
West Midlands
0
n/a
3
43.33
8
53.13
7
65.00
2
27.50
11
50.91
West Yorkshire
0
n/a
1
20.00
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
0
n/a
Wiltshire
0
n/a
0
n/a
1
50.00
1
75.00
0
n/a
0
n/a
Total
21
45.95
72
37.17
78
49.94
63
58.57
59
48.98
76
60.92
n/a = Not applicable. (1) Under the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 which came into force on the 1 September 2001, there were no offenders sentenced in 2001. (2) Excludes one fine amount which exceeds the statutory maximum and may be erroneous. Notes:
1. Where a PFA does not appear in the list there have been no offenders fined in any of the years listed.
2. These data are presented on the principal offence basis.
3. These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems.
4. 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.
