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Reported losses or thefts of laptops belonging to Ministry of Justice agencies, including Her Majesty’s Courts Service, Tribunals Service National Offender Management Service (including Her Majesty’s Prison Service and the National Probation Service), are as follows:

	Number
2007	11
2008	19

Four of the laptops belonging to agencies reported lost were subsequently recovered. Another one of those lost went missing in delivery and had never been used.

Reported losses for the predecessor Department for Constitutional Affairs, including its agencies, are as follows:

	Number
2004	27
2005	20
2006	27

Disclosure of Information: Royal Family

Mr. Dai Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice for what reasons (a) Cabinet papers and (b) information in respect of the royal family are not included in his proposals to replace the 30-year rule with a 20-year rule for disclosure of official public documents. [280176]

Mr. Straw: Following the Dacre Review Report the Government will reduce the length of the 30-year rule to 20 years.

Having considered the Review’s recommendations carefully, it will also bring forward additional protections for some limited categories of information. The Government’s full response to the Report will be published by the summer.

Driving Offences: Convictions

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in each age group in each local authority area have been (a) charged and (b) convicted of driving offences in each of the last five years. [280786]

Claire Ward: Proceedings at magistrates courts for motoring offences, by age group, in England and Wales, by police force area, for the years 2003 to 2007 (latest available) can be viewed in table 1.

Charging data are not held by the Ministry of Justice, thus proceedings at magistrates courts data have been provided in lieu.

Findings of guilt at all courts for motoring offences, by age group, in England and Wales, by police force area, for the years 2003 to 2007 (latest available) can be viewed in table 2.

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It is not possible to further break down data to local authority area level as this data are not held by the Ministry of Justice, thus police force area data have been provided in lieu.

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Court proceedings data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.

Table 1: Proceedings at magistrates courts for motoring offences, by age group, in England and Wales, by police force area 2003-07( 1,)( )( 2)
	2003			2004			2005
Police force area	Under 21	21 and over	Total	Under 21	21 and over	Total	Under 21	21 and over	Total
Avon and Somerset	12,849	77,009	89,858	12,280	75,233	87,513	10,601	64,307	74,908
Bedfordshire	5,119	24,840	29,959	3,643	18,500	22,143	3,750	25,271	29,021
Cambridgeshire	3,679	12,883	16,562	2,934	13,838	16,772	2,585	16,415	19,000
Cheshire	5,472	27,176	32,648	5,698	32,460	38,158	4,402	25,373	29,775
Cleveland	6,543	24,806	31,349	5,048	22,525	27,573	3,677	15,140	18,817
Cumbria	3,383	16,638	20,021	3,591	16,042	19,633	2,729	14,147	16,876
Derbyshire	4,172	29,321	33,493	4,222	28,869	33,091	3,113	24,294	27,407
Devon and Cornwall	9,778	56,585	66,363	9,145	50,057	59,202	7,247	43,773	51,020
Dorset	6,690	35,492	42,182	5,105	31,255	36,360	5,123	30,832	35,955
Durham	5,409	16,007	21,416	4,589	14,622	19,211	3,361	11,837	15,198
Essex	7,279	41,459	48,738	6,418	39,577	45,995	6,099	40,630	46,729
Gloucestershire	4,346	22,524	26,870	3,458	19,330	22,788	2,681	18,500	21,181
Greater Manchester	39,405	172,419	211,824	32,166	167,237	199,403	21,905	145,927	167,832
Hampshire	12,085	54,270	66,355	10,342	50,553	60,895	8,383	41,153	49,536
Hertfordshire	5,026	31,798	36,824	2,317	34,856	37,173	2,081	35,353	37,434
Humberside	6,653	27,476	34,129	6,741	29,076	35,817	5,279	26,083	31,362
Kent	9,904	42,651	52,555	11,732	51,853	63,585	9,163	43,175	52,338
Lancashire	14,985	70,984	85,969	11,777	55,388	67,165	12,667	56,488	69,155
Leicestershire	11,295	54,442	65,737	8,860	44,134	52,994	5,184	26,483	31,667
Lincolnshire	6,087	33,845	39,932	6,196	36,036	42,232	5,168	30,731	35,899
London, city of	940	13,002	13,942	649	17,433	18,082	572	13,112	13,684
Merseyside	14,662	46,580	61,242	14,961	48,615	63,576	10,848	38,073	48,921
Metropolitan Police District	36,698	164,851	201,549	35,343	182,289	217,632	30,952	163,297	194,249
Norfolk	5,032	22,989	28,021	4,023	19,797	23,820	3,605	18,988	22,593
Northamptonshire	4,286	23,461	27,747	5,567	27,946	33,513	3,614	22,800	26,414
Northumbria	12,168	50,995	63,163	9,464	50,421	59,885	8,961	50,026	58,987
North Yorkshire	4,169	15,674	19,843	3,879	17,617	21,496	3,283	14,535	17,818
Nottinghamshire	10,046	29,091	39,137	8,044	29,565	37,609	5,983	24,899	30,882
South Yorkshire	10,724	42,738	53,462	7,890	40,931	48,821	8,132	38,401	46,533
Staffordshire	7,283	29,739	37,022	7,067	35,722	42,789	6,465	34,364	40,829
Suffolk	6,134	28,336	34,470	5,743	31,179	36,922	4,541	26,393	30,934
Surrey	3,157	15,770	18,927	2,656	9,972	12,628	2,735	15,993	18,728
Sussex	4,925	27,881	32,806	3,260	13,540	16,800	3,402	24,233	27,635
Thames Valley	9,688	56,051	65,739	7,723	58,285	66,008	6,835	50,243	57,078
Warwickshire	3,250	16,564	19,814	3,048	18,661	21,709	2,272	15,518	17,790
West Mercia	5,776	32,814	38,590	2,957	26,318	29,275	3,282	32,483	35,765
West Midlands	32,199	150,203	182,402	26,980	155,270	182,250	20,646	137,374	158,020
West Yorkshire	21,176	94,169	115,345	25,258	137,639	162,897	16,598	115,030	131,628
Wiltshire	4,414	29,255	33,669	4,270	27,007	31,277	4,369	27,027	31,396
Dyfed Powys	3,412	19,343	22,755	2,315	15,657	17,972	2,899	15,853	18,752
Gwent	4,295	21,058	25,353	4,011	18,117	22,128	3,656	16,499	20,155
North Wales	5,535	29,787	35,322	5,129	29,443	34,572	3,653	22,687	26,340
South Wales	17,733	70,468	88,201	17,992	73,797	91,789	13,215	58,476	71,691
England and Wales	407,861	1,903,444	2,311,305	364,491	1,916,662	2,281,153	295,716	1,712,216	2,007,932

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