[holding answer 21 November 2006]: Information from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform showing the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for the sale of tobacco to under 16-year-olds, in (a) Worthing and (b) West Sussex local criminal justice areas from 2000-04, are provided in the attached table. During this period, Worthing local criminal justice area was incorporated into West Sussex local criminal justice area.
Data for 2005 will be available in late November.
2937 Worthing and District Local Criminal Justice Area 2949 Sussex (Western) Local Criminal Justice Area Proceeded against Found guilty Proceeded against Found guilty 2000 1 1 — —. 2001 — — — — 2002 — — — — 2003 — — 1 1 2004 — — 5 2 1 Principal offence basis. 2 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 and courts. 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: RDS—Office for Criminal Justice Reform