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Sentencing: Protection of Badgers Act 1992

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people were sentenced following successful prosecutions under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 in each year since its entry into force. (186233)

The requested information is contained in the following table.

Number sentenced1 for offences under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992, all courts, England and Wales, 1992 to 2006

Number of offenders

1992

1993

31

1994

35

1995

33

1996

23

1997

29

1998

10

1999

28

2000

20

2001

36

2002

28

2003

16

2004

22

2005

20

2006

7

1 Principal offences basis.

Notes:

1. The offence of ‘failing to give up a dog for destruction or having custody of a dog while disqualified’ is an offence under the Badger Act (1992) and the Dangerous Dogs Act (1991). It has been included in these figures, although it is not possible to tell which Act was intended when sentencing.

2. These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.

Source:

RDS-NOMS, Ministry of Justice.