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Lynne Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were arrested and not charged in each of the past five years; and how many of them had never been arrested previously. [106529]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth
Data given in the table are for arrests for notifiable offences within the financial years 1999–2000 to 2001–02. Information for earlier years is not available on a consistent basis.Statistics on the number of people who following arrest are not charged, or those who have never been arrested previously, are not collected centrally.
| Persons arrested for notifiable offences recorded by the police, from 1999–2000 to 2001–02 | |
| £ | |
| Year | 1England and Wales |
| 1999–2000 | 1,277,900 |
| 2000–01 | 1,264,200 |
| 2001–02 | 1,271,900 |
| 1Total (estimated) | |