To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times the power to issue directions to leave under section 27(1) of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 have been used in each police force area in each year since 2006. (263499)

The information requested on the number of directions to leave issued by the police, and arrests for failing to comply with the direction to leave is not collected centrally.

The arrests collection held by the Home Office covers arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, broken down at a main offence group level, covering categories such as violence against the person and robbery.

Offences of failing to comply with directions to leave under section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 are not notifiable offences and do not form part of the arrests collection.