The available information is shown in the following table. Data for the last six months are not available—data for each month of 2008 are supplied in lieu. Data for 2009 will be available when Sentencing Statistics 2009 is published in the autumn.
Data by region held on the courts proceedings database does not match exactly to Youth Offending Team areas which are based on local authority areas.
The criminal justice areas that make up each region are shown in the table.
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec East Midlands 52 39 43 36 42 34 29 30 37 46 43 24 East of England 33 38 25 38 35 39 43 28 35 34 61 38 London 84 109 72 96 105 94 107 95 92 89 62 73 North East 22 24 26 21 23 12 22 24 12 18 14 12 North West 85 86 90 100 77 65 88 66 87 85 61 57 South East 46 32 39 44 49 38 44 46 48 39 35 50 South West 16 14 17 20 22 22 15 26 20 18 23 25 Wales 27 23 25 27 31 33 21 20 21 29 17 20 West Midlands 58 47 47 65 59 63 27 47 49 61 43 45 Yorkshire and Humberside 57 56 58 87 50 54 63 45 58 58 56 46 Total 480 468 442 534 493 454 459 427 459 477 415 390 1 Young offenders are those aged under 18 at the point of sentence. 2 Data by region held on the courts proceedings database does not match exactly to Youth Offending Team areas. The following Criminal Justice Areas are contained within each region: East Midlands Derbyshire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire East of England Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Hertfordshire Norfolk Suffolk LondonLondon North East Cleveland Durham Northumbria North West Cheshire Cumbria Greater Manchester Lancashire Merseyside South East Hampshire Kent Surrey Sussex Thames Valley South West Avon and Somerset Devon and Cornwall Dorset Gloucestershire Wiltshire Wales Dyfed-Powys Gwent North Wales South Wales West Midlands Staffordshire Warwickshire West Mercia West Midlands Yorkshire and Humberside Humberside North Yorkshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire Note: 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: Justice Statistics—Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice Ref: PQ(JSAS)317526 17/02/2010.