Arrest Warrants Mr. Willis To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many outstanding warrants have been issued for category (a) A, (b) B and (c) C offences to individuals whom the police cannot trace in each police authority in each of the last three years. Maria Eagle All failure to appear (FTA) warrants count as outstanding from the moment they are received from the courts until the time they are either executed or withdrawn. The following table sets out the number of outstanding FTA warrants as at 31 March for each of the last three financial years. This information is published on CJSonline. Areas have only been required to provide a breakdown of this figure by category A, B and C since the 2007-08 financial year, therefore this information is available for 31 March 2008 only. These data have previously only been made available to practitioners and have not been validated in the same way as the data published on CJSonline. It is not possible to tell from centrally collected data how long each of these warrants has been outstanding. However police forces keep outstanding FTA warrants under regular review to ensure that all possible steps are taken to execute these warrants as quickly as possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |CJS areas |31 March 2006|31 March 2007|31 March 2008|A |B |C | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Avon and Somerset |1,347 |1,161 |918 |134 |294 |490 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Bedfordshire |496 |508 |319 |40 |128 |151 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Cambridgeshire |548 |438 |388 |88 |147 |153 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Cheshire |305 |311 |257 |13 |179 |65 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Cleveland |267 |225 |195 |40 |95 |60 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Cumbria |l09 |105 |117 |23 |68 |26 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Derbyshire |270 |300 |257 |101 |106 |50 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Devon and Cornwall |430 |303 |257 |70 |136 |51 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Dorset |510 |416 |318 |91 |155 |72 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |County Durham and Darlington|159 |149 |120 |4 |80 |36 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Dyfed-Powys |177 |143 |127 |10 |59 |58 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Essex |915 |995 |799 |84 |384 |331 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Gloucestershire |245 |200 |166 |26 |97 |43 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Greater Manchester |3,671 |2,475 |1,835 |170 |608 |1,057| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Gwent |282 |243 |181 |28 |60 |93 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Hampshire and Isle of Wight |926 |788 |641 |69 |412 |160 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Hertfordshire |427 |364 |343 |41 |196 |106 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Humberside |312 |244 |214 |19 |75 |120 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Kent |759 |675 |557 |79 |279 |199 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Lancashire |988 |896 |749 |72 |335 |342 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Leicestershire |886 |659 |513 |93 |207 |213 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Lincolnshire |783 |718 |552 |126 |136 |290 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |London |9,779 |7,278 |6,040 |1,149|3,650|1,241| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Merseyside |1,730 |1,109 |784 |222 |316 |246 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Norfolk |387 |425 |275 |16 |101 |158 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North Wales |213 |143 |128 |28 |83 |17 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North Yorkshire |213 |147 |129 |38 |39 |52 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Northamptonshire |266 |258 |244 |19 |192 |33 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Northumbria |740 |685 |576 |56 |270 |250 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Nottinghamshire |624 |598 |510 |120 |253 |137 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South Wales |911 |1,018 |890 |91 |303 |496 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South Yorkshire |691 |432 |330 |n/a |n/a |n/a | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Staffordshire |552 |489 |327 |40 |240 |47 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Suffolk |527 |424 |373 |48 |140 |142 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Surrey |260 |250 |223 |33 |158 |32 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Sussex |734 |639 |556 |106 |351 |99 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Thames Valley |1,811 |1,462 |1,204 |126 |646 |432 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Warwickshire |154 |147 |159 |38 |81 |40 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |West Mercia |577 |546 |354 |39 |214 |101 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |West Midlands |1,828 |1,545 |1,091 |202 |507 |382 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |West Yorkshire |992 |802 |886 |225 |357 |304 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Wiltshire |138 |166 |137 |2 |117 |18 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------