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Sexual Offences

Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cautions have been issued for sexual offences in each of the last 10 years. [289346]

Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 12 October 2009]: Information provided by the Ministry of Justice on the number of offenders cautioned for sexual offences, England and Wales 1998 to 2007 (latest available) is shown in the following table.

Data for 2008 will be published in November 2009.

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Number of offenders issued with a caution for sexual offences, England and Wales 1998 to 2007( 1,2,3)
	Number
1998	1,726
1999	1,469
2000	1,301
2001	1,240
2002	1,203
2003	1,359
2004	1,553
2005	1,761
2006	1,922
2007	1,966
(1) From 1 June 2000 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and warnings. These figures have been included in the totals. (2) These data are on the principal offence basis.
(3) 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 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: OCJR-Evidence and Analysis Unit IOS ref: 382-09

Young Offenders

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people aged (a) under 10, (b) 10 to 17, (c) 18 to 20 and (d) 21 years and over were (i) arrested, (ii) charged and (iii) convicted for (A) violent and (B) non-violent offences in each of the last five years. [289592]

Alan Johnson: Available information on numbers of persons arrested, broken down by age group is given in table A. The table covers the period from 2003-04 to 2007-08 (latest available). There is no link from these centrally reported data to any subsequent outcome. Data on arrests are published on a financial year basis.

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Additionally, information provided by the Ministry of Justice showing the number of persons proceeded against at magistrates' courts and found guilty at all courts for violent and non-violent offences, broken down by age group, in England and Wales from 2003 to 2007 (latest available) can be viewed in table B.

The Ministry of Justice does not centrally collect charging data; proceeded against data is provided in lieu. The court proceedings database held by the Ministry of Justice does not hold information on convictions and prosecutions data for persons aged under 10 who are under the age of liability. Data on court proceedings are published on a calendar year basis.

Data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.

The court statistics provided by the Ministry of Justice 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.

Table A: Number of persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences) by age group and type of offence( 1) 2003-04 to 2007-08: England and Wales
	Number of arrests( 2)
Notifiable offence group	Aged under 10	Aged 10-17	Aged 18-20	Aged 21 and over	Age unknown	All ages
2003-04
Violent offences	100	83,000	56,900	256,000	900	396,800
Other offences	500	230,300	145,200	555,600	1,900	933,800
Total	700	313,200	202,200	811,700	2,700	1,330,400
2004-05( 3)
Violent offences	200	96,700	66,800	294,000	900	458,400
Other offences	500	236,100	137,000	519,500	1,900	894,900
Total	800	332,800	203,700	813,400	2,800	1,353,400
2005-06
Violent offences	200	108,500	74,500	331,800	800	515,800
Other offences	500	239,900	140,300	531,100	2,000	914,000
Total	800	348,500	214,700	863,100	2,700	1,429,800
2006-07
Violent offences	93	115,173	81,617	362,585	1,037	560,505
Other offences	353	238,197	144,293	536,643	2,165	921,651
Total	446	353,370	225,910	899,228	3,202	1,482,156
2007-08
Violent offences	41	102,802	77,864	363,629	1,685	546,021
Other offences	122	212,599	145,759	568,021	2,744	929,245
Total	163	315,401	223,623	931,650	4,429	1,475,266
(1) Violent offences includes the offence categories of: violence against the person; sexual offences; robbery offences. Other offences includes the offence categories of: burglary; theft and handling stolen goods; fraud and forgery; .criminal damage; drug offences; other offences. (2) Figures from 2003-04 to 2005-06 are rounded to the nearest 100 therefore figures for these years may not add up to the totals, subsequent years' figures are unrounded. Additionally, figures for violent and other offences may not be accurate due to the summing of rounded figures. (3) Figures updated since publication of 2004-05 bulletin. Note: 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 forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when these data are used.

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Table B: The number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts, and found guilty at all courts for offences relating to violent, and non violent offences, in England and Wales, by age group, 2003 to 2007( 1,2,3)
	Proceeded against					Found guilty
Age group	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
10-17
Violent offences	18,618	18,217	18,123	18,457	18,555	9,668	10,457	11,061	11,713	12,337
Non violent offences	122,172	118,445	113,608	107,732	107,979	82,873	85,733	85,096	81,976	85,104
18-20
Violent offences	15,798	14,604	14,433	14,653	14,230	8,129	8,520	8,821	9,449	9,849
Non violent offences	205,968	191,682	174,739	165,256	158,361	154,359	148,231	137,806	133,612	130,763
21 and over
Violent offences	68,049	60,914	57,853	53,953	50,938	31,897	32,438	32,938	33,708	33,669
Non violent offences	1,556,205	1,603,373	1,502,837	1,408,127	1,371,432	1,194,295	1,252,609	1,199,530	1,143,315	1,136,243
All ages
Violent offences	102,465	93,735	90,409	87,063	83,723	49,694	51,415	52,820	54,870	55,855
Non violent offences	1,884,345	1,913,500	1,791,184	1,681,115	1,637,772	1,431,527	1,486,573	1,422,432	1,358,903	1,352,110
(1) Data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Data includes the following offence types: Violent offences: Violence against the person Sexual Offences Robbery Non Violent offences: Burglary Theft and handling stolen goods Fraud and forgery Criminal damage Drug offences Other indictable offences Indictable motoring offences Summary offences (excluding motoring) Summary motoring offences (3) 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, other agencies, 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: Court proceedings data held by CJEAU-Office for Criminal Justice Reform-Ministry of Justice

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