[holding answer 4 February 2010]: 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.
From these data it is not possible to separate specific offences therefore data on arrests for aggravated burglary cannot be provided.
Figures provided by the Ministry of Justice, showing the number of persons prosecuted and convicted for aggravated burglary offences in Lancashire, and England and Wales 2004 to 2008 (latest available) can be viewed in the table.
Figures for Ribble Valley are not separately identifiable from the data on prosecutions reported to the Ministry of Justice.
It is not possible to separately identify aggravated burglary from the information on arrests reported to the Home Office.
Prosecuted Convicted at all courts 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Lancashire Aggravated burglary in a dwelling 38 51 51 28 52 4 16 15 15 15 Aggravated burglary in a building other than a dwelling 1 3 0 4 — — 1 — — 2 England and Wales Aggravated burglary in a dwelling 980 929 817 724 927 264 218 230 234 275 Aggravated burglary in a building other than a dwelling 143 89 65 67 61 20 27 18 30 17 1 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. 2 Excludes prosecutions and convictions data for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July, and August 2008. 3 The data are on principal offence basis. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice.