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Crime

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 23 February 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) fixed penalty notices, (b) conditional cautions and (c) public disorder notices were issued in England and Wales in each year since 2005. (317275)

Information on the number of fixed penalty notices for motoring offences issued from 2005 to 2007 can be found in table A. Data on fixed penalty notices for 2008 are scheduled to be published on 15 April 2010.

Information provided by the Ministry of Justice, on the number of penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) issued in England and Wales 2005 to 2008 can be viewed in table B.

Data on conditional cautions are not available as they are not separately identified in the data on cautions reported to the Ministry of Justice.

Table A: Number of fixed penalty notices issued for motoring offences, England and Wales 2005-07

Number of fixed penalty notices issued1

2005

3,203,000

2006

3,018,000

2007

2,627,000

1 Figures rounded to the nearest thousand

Table B: Number of penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) issued to offenders of ages 16 and over in England and Wales, 2005-081

Total PNDs issued2

2005

146,481

2006

201,197

2007

207,544

2008

176,164

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 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 PNDs were rolled out nationally on 1 April 2004.

Source:

Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice. Ref: 071-10

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the average (a) number and (b) proportion of crimes committed by an offender in the geographical area within 20 miles of the home address of that offender in the last 12 months. (318046)

No estimates have been made centrally about crimes committed in relation to addresses of offenders.