To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2010, Official Report, columns 488-89W, on crime: convictions, what the equivalent figures are for each year between 1997 and 2006. (319825)

The available information from 1997 to 2008 (latest available), is shown in tables 1 to 15 which have been placed in the Library of the House.

The Court Proceedings Database holds information on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. Specific information on the circumstances of an offence are not held centrally and it is therefore not possible to identify whether an offence arising from tackling an intruder occurred in a residential or retail property.

Cautions and court proceedings data for 2009 are planned to be published in the autumn, 2010.