Public Order

Mr. Laws
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) exclusion orders, (b) curfews and (c) parenting orders have been issued by Yeovil police in the last 12 months.

Mr. McNulty
Figures reported to the Home Office on exclusion and curfew orders in the South Somerset petty sessional area (which includes Yeovil) are small and their accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Although care is taken in collating and analysing the returns used to compile such figures, the data are of necessity subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.

We have started a programme of work in the Home Office looking at the quality of existing data on court sentencing and how this might be improved. Parenting Orders are issued by courts. The Youth Justice Board collects the number of Parenting Orders related to youth offending or antisocial behaviour broken down by youth offending team area. It is currently reviewing these figures for the period 2004-05 and 2005-06. I will write to the hon. Member when the reviewed figures are available.

David T.C. Davies
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) arrested, (b) charged and (c) prosecuted for crimes committed during the protests in London last February against cartoons which were published in Denmark.

Mr. McNulty
The information requested on arrests is not available centrally.