Knives: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many retailers have been (a) cautioned, (b) fined and (c) imprisoned for selling knives to people under the necessary purchasing age in each police force area in each year since 1998-99. (315060)

The requested information is shown in the following table.

*Cautions, fines and custodial sentences for selling a knife to a person under age*¹ *by criminal justice area, 1998 to 2008*
	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Bedfordshire
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Custodial sentence	0	0	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Cumbria
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Derbyshire
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Devon and Cornwall
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Gloucestershire
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Greater Manchester
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	3	2
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Hampshire
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Hertfordshire
Cautions	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Lancashire
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Leicestershire
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Lincolnshire
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

London²
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Fines	2	1	0	1	3	3	1	16	31	15	11
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

North Yorkshire
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	4	0	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Nottinghamshire
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Surrey
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Sussex
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Thames Valley
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	0	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

West Mercia
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

West midlands
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	1	1	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Wiltshire
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	4	5	1	0	0	0	0	1
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Dyfed-Powys
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Gwent
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	3	0	1	2	0	0	1	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

North Wales
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

South Wales
Cautions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fines	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

England and Wales total
Cautions	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	1
Fines	2	1	0	8	10	14	6	25	43	29	22
Custodial sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
¹ 16 as enacted by the Criminal Justice Act 1988 amended to 18 by Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006. ² Includes City of London and Metropolitan police force areas. Note: Where a criminal justice area doe not appear in the table there have been no fines, custodial sentences or cautions issued in any of the years shown.

Volume 505: debated on Friday 5 February 2010