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Antisocial Behaviour Orders

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 12 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders were breached in (a) England and Wales and (b) Gloucestershire in each year since the introduction of the penalty; and if he will make a statement. (125680)

[holding answer 6 March 2007]: Antisocial behaviour order (ASBO) breach data are currently available up to 31 December 2005 for ASBOs issued since 1 June 2000. The available information is given in the following table.

Number of persons proven in court to have breached their ASBO in England and Wales and in the Gloucestershire criminal justice system (CJS) area1 in each year

Area

20002

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

England and Wales

13

124

254

715

1,864

3,390

Gloucestershire

1

1

5

13

36

1ASBOs may be issued in one area and breached in another. In this table ASBOs breached in Gloucestershire are counted irrespective of whether issued in Gloucestershire or not.

2 From 1 June 2000. No ASBO breach data are available prior to this date.

Notes:

1. It is possible for an individual to breach their ASBO in more than one year, so persons may be counted more than once in this table.

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 courts and police forces. 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:

OCJR Court Proceedings Database

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 23 February 2007, Official Report, column 985W, on antisocial behaviour orders, how many and what percentage of antisocial behaviour orders included (a) an individual support order and (b) an intervention order in the last 12 months for which figures are available. (133347)

Information is given in the table on the number of individual support orders given in 2005 (latest available). This pre-dates the joint campaign by the Home Office, Youth Justice Board and her Majesty’s Court Service to increase take up which began early in 2006 and is continuing. Data for subsequent periods will be published in due course.

Number of individual support orders1 given at the magistrates court, in addition to an antisocial behaviour order, as reported to the Home Office by the Court Service, 2005—England and Wales

Number/percentage

Individual support orders

42

ASBOs issued on application (age 10-17)

633

Percentage of ASBOs with an ISO attached

7

1 Available at the magistrates courts only with ASBOs issued, on application, to juveniles (age 10-17).

Note:

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 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.