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Juries: Bexley

Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people resident in the London Borough of Bexley (a) were summoned for and (b) undertook jury service in each year since 1997. [319470]

Bridget Prentice: The following table shows, on a national level basis for each calendar year from 2000 to 2008, the following:

(a) how many people have been required for jury service;

(b) how many people have been supplied to the court for jury service;

(c) how many people have been deferred from the original date they were summoned for jury service;

(d) how many people have been excused from jury service;

(e) how many people have been disqualified from jury service.

Information for each London borough is not held centrally as the information cannot be extracted in this way by the computer system. Residents from the London borough of Bexley could be summoned to one of five different court locations which also cover other postal areas.

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	Calendar year end
	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total number of summons issues	79,115	579,473	492,561	461,980	431,432	388,154	390,671	412,666	416,689
Total number of jurors supplied to the court	24,907	187,080	197,599	184,833	187,114	185,193	181,966	182,661	183,506
Deferred to serve at a later date	8,60	61,435	59,786	59,528	65,754	63,741	61,254	66,174	66,806
Number refused deferral	22	214	297	340	288	286	172	122	103
Excused-by right having served in past two years	4,700	32,368	29,120	28,247	14,887	4,333	4,277	4,518	4,244
Excused-child care	3,410	27,685	26,281	24,327	19,497	15,741	15,690	16,118	15,711
Excused-work commitments	2,781	26,640	25,628	19,373	14,961	14,419	15,998	16,428	16,857
Excused-medical	5,650	44,435	40,982	35,061	34,016	32,239	30,332	32,416	31,289
Excused-travel difficulties	186	2,394	1,811	1,110	813	672	720	651	690
Excused-student	736	5,468	5,899	3,979	2,438	2,150	2,209	2,273	2,429
Excused-moved from area	1,549	11,073	6,254	3,419	2,498	2,181	2,454	2,988	2,543
Excused-language difficulties	849	5,921	5,928	5,260	4,975	4,081	4,030	4,406	4,165
Excused-other	2,521	20,678	22,354	22,400	23,103	21,658	24,126	27,784	30,606
All excused	22,382	176,662	164,257	143,176	117,188	97,474	99,836	107,582	108,534
Number refused excusal	421	2,494	1,927	3,453	4,344	3,585	2,053	1,641	1,515
Disqualified-residency, mental disorders, criminality	15,248	118,339	105,314	98,045	89,112	77,364	85,061	94,171	96,325
Disqualified-on selection	5,989	48,271	59,892	58,830	55,410	49,765	53,031	58,900	59,017
Disqualified-failed Police National Computer (PNC) check	0	69	160	139	148	193	185	207	225

Legal Aid

Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many legal aid (a) matter starts and (b) claims registered there were in each of the smallest data areas in each year since 2005-06. [318764]

Bridget Prentice: The information requested is shown in the following table.

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