The requested information is contained in the following table.
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.