To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many football banning orders were (a) issued and (b) breached in each year since 2003. (317835)

The data requested are gathered and reported in accordance with the period of a football season rather than calendar year. The following table provides the number of football banning orders imposed during each football season since 2003-04 and the number of arrests for breach of an order. The data provide no distinction between low-level technical breaches or a substantive breach involving attempted attendance at a regulated football match at home or abroad.