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Licensing

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 13 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions for offences under the Licensing Act 2003 there have been in each police force area in each year since the implementation of that Act; and if he will make a statement. (309962)

Information showing the number of defendants found guilty at all courts in England and Wales from 2005 (when most sections of the Act came into force) to 2007 (latest available) for offences under the Licensing Act 2003 can be viewed in the following table.

Data for 2008 are planned for publication on 28 January 2010.

Number of defendants found guilty at all courts for offences under the Licensing Act 2003 by police force area, 2005-071, 2

Police force area

2005

2006

2007

Avon and Somerset

4

9

Bedfordshire

1

1

Cambridgeshire

2

10

Cheshire

2

4

5

City of London

2

1

Cleveland

7

18

Cumbria

3

2

Derbyshire

1

3

8

Devon and Cornwall

1

4

1

Dorset

2

Durham

2

6

Essex

7

19

Gloucestershire

5

4

Greater Manchester

7

48

37

Hampshire

3

9

Hertfordshire

1

33

27

Humberside

1

2

3

Kent

1

Lancashire

21

41

Leicestershire

27

65

Lincolnshire

1

10

Merseyside

7

37

Metropolitan Police

87

223

Norfolk

5

2

North Yorkshire

22

17

Northamptonshire

3

6

7

Northumbria

1

9

Nottinghamshire

11

8

South Yorkshire

10

4

Staffordshire

25

31

Suffolk

3

11

Surrey

10

3

Sussex

21

23

Thames Valley

4

26

Warwickshire

1

1

West Mercia

5

8

West Midlands

36

54

West Yorkshire

4

Wiltshire

1

4

8

Dyfed-Powys

9

7

Gwent

8

11

North Wales

8

10

13

South Wales

10

3

Total England and Wales

25

474

789

1 The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.

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.

3 Most sections within the 2003 Licensing Act came into force on 24 November 2005.

Source:

Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice [Ref: IOS 013-10].