To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) prosecuted for begging, (b) convicted of begging, (c) prosecuted for sleeping rough and (d) convicted of sleeping rough in each police district in England and Wales in the year ending 31 December 1990.
Information is not yet available for 1990. The table shows the number of prosecutions and convictions for begging and sleeping out offences by police force area in 1989.
Begging
| Sleeping Out
| |||
Police Force Area
| Prosecutions
| Convictions
| Prosecutions
| Convictions
|
| Devon and Cornwall | 20 | 19 | — | — |
| Dorset | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| Essex | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| Greater Manchester | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Hampshire | 5 | 3 | 2 | — |
| Hertfordshire | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Humberside | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Kent | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Lancashire | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| London, City of | 5 | 5 | — | — |
| Merseyside | 7 | 6 | 1 | — |
| Metropolitan Police District (MPD) | 1,251 | 1,188 | 12 | 10 |
| North Yorkshire | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Staffordshire | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Surrey | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Sussex | 19 | 17 | — | — |
| Thames Valley | 40 | 37 | 1 | 1 |
| West Midlands | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| Wiltshire | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| South Wales | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| England and Wales | 1,402 | 1,319 | 24 | 16 |
| No prosecutions were recorded in the Police Force Areas of Cheshire, Cleveland, Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumbria, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, West Mercia, West Yorkshire, Dyfed Powys, Gwent and North Wales. | ||||