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Table 2 shows the number of care and supervision orders made in each calendar year from 2004 to 2008 for County Courts and the High Court.
| Table 2 | |||||
| Care and supervision orders made in the County Courts and High Court, England and Wales | |||||
| HMCS area | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
| Notes: 1. The data are taken from the HMCS FamilyMan System. 2. Figures relate to the number of children subject to each application. 3. Disposals in each year may relate to applications made in earlier years. 4. Figures are provided for County Courts and the High Court. | |||||
Table 3 shows the number of care and supervision orders made from April 2007 to December 2008 in the Family Proceedings Courts; figures for earlier periods are not available for these areas.
More recent statistics than those shown are not yet available.
| Table 3 | ||
| Care and supervision orders made in the Family Proceedings Courts, England and Wales | ||
| HMCS area | April 2007 to December 2007 | January 2008 to December 2008 |
| Notes: 1. The data are taken from the HMCS FamilyMan System and One Performance Truth database. 2. Figures relate to the number of children subject to each application. 3. Disposals in 2007 and 2008 may relate to applications made in earlier years. 4. Figures are provided for Family Proceedings Court. 5. For Family Proceedings Courts the earliest available data that can be broken down by HMCS area is from April 2007. Therefore figures for 2007 relate to data from April 2007 to December 2007. | ||
Contact Orders
Mr Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many (a) mothers and (b) fathers breached contact orders in each of the last three years; and what proportion of those breaches resulted in (i) a fine and (ii) imprisonment in each such year; [8]
(2) how many contact orders relating to the movement of children abroad were granted in the last three years; [139]
(3) how many contact orders were breached in the last three years; [140]
(4) how many contact orders were made in (a) public and (b) private in each of the last three years. [141]
Mr Djanogly:
The following table shows the number of public and private law Section 8 contact orders made in the family courts in England and Wales between the years of 2006 and 2008. 2008 is the latest year for which data on orders made have been published. Statistics on contact orders made are published by the Ministry of Justice in the annual Command Paper "Judicial and
Court Statistics", copies of which are available in the Library of the House and on the Ministry's website at:
| Section 8 contact orders made in all tiers of court between 2006 and 2008, by whether public or private law | |||
| Public | Private | Total | |
| Notes: 1. Figures presented are for England and Wales only. 2. Figures relate to the number of children subject to each application. 3. Disposals in each year may relate to applications made in earlier years. 4. Data for 2006 have been revised. 5. All tiers of court are represented in the answer; specifically the family proceedings court, county court and High Court. Source: Judicial and Court Statistics | |||
Information about the number of contact orders made relating to the movement of children abroad is not held centrally, and could be obtained through the inspection of individual files only at disproportionate cost.
It is not possible to know whether a contact order was breached unless either a new contact order is applied for, or an enforcement order is applied for to enforce the original contact order. The enforcement order was introduced in December 2008. There were 1,081 applications for enforcement orders in respect of contact orders, in the county courts during calendar year 2009. Information on which parent breached a contact order is not held centrally.
Electoral Register
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of persons resident in each constituency eligible to vote and not on the electoral register. [33]
Mr Maude: I have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated May 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your question asking what estimate has been made of the number of persons resident in each constituency eligible to vote and not on the electoral register (33).
ONS does not have the data required to answer your question. Data are collected on the number of UK citizens resident in Parliamentary Constituencies who are registered to vote, but no data are collected on the number of people who are eligible to vote but who choose not to register.
Fines: Surcharges
Mr Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will make it his policy to abolish the practice whereby courts add a victim surcharge to penalties imposed for offences in cases where there is no victim. [266]
Mr Blunt:
The Government are committed to ensuring that offenders pay financial reparation to victims of crime. We firmly believe that offenders should take
responsibility, regardless of the offence committed, for compensating victims and contributing toward the cost of supporting them to overcome the effects of crime. A victim surcharge of £15, used to fund victims' services, is currently applied to all sentences which include a fine.
In line with our commitments in the coalition agreement to a sentencing review, we are exploring ways in which offenders might contribute to services and support for their victims and victims generally.
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