“*” = Not applicable.

¹ The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.

² Includes the following offences and statutes:

Buying or attempting to buy intoxicating liquor for consumption by a person under 18.

Purchasing intoxicating liquor for consumption by person under 18 in bar.

(Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Act 1983 Schedule (Sec 3) para 4(3).

Licensing Act 1964 Sec 169(3)).

Person who buys or attempts to buy alcohol on behalf of an individual under 18.

(Licensing Act 2003 S149(3,4,7b))

³ 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.

⁴ Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table.

⁵ Excludes convictions data for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July, and August 2008.

⁶ The penalty notice for disorder scheme was implemented in all 43 police forces in England and Wales in 2004.

Source:

Justice Statistics Analytical Services in the Ministry of Justice