Crime: Assault

Question

Asked by

Lord Monson
To ask Her Majesty's Government on how many occasions in each of the past 10 years individuals convicted of crimes involving physical assault on another person resulting in injury have been ordered by courts to pay compensation to the victim amounting to (a) £100 or less; (b) £101 to £250; (c) £251 to £500; (d) £501 to £1,000; and (e) more than £1,000. [HL502]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach)
The requested information is shown in the table below:

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|    |£100 or less|£101-£250|£251-£500|£501-£1000|Over £1000|
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|1998|5,080       |3,955    |2,177    |1,010     |297       |
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|1999|4,853       |3,670    |2,045    |867       |307       |
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|2000|4,265       |3,338    |2,010    |861       |282       |
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|2001|3,445       |2,940    |1,929    |784       |324       |
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|2002|3,410       |3,012    |1,955    |889       |367       |
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|2003|3,371       |3,073    |1,925    |922       |448       |
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|2004|3,084       |2,924    |1,971    |885       |434       |
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|2005|3,256       |2,931    |1,918    |934       |475       |
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|2006|3,268       |3,010    |2,151    |946       |481       |
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|2007|2,964       |3,146    |2,161    |1,036     |491       |
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(1) Offences of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, malicious wounding, racially aggravated malicious wounding, religiously aggravated malicious wounding, racially or religiously aggravated wounding, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, racially aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault, racially aggravated common assault, religiously aggravated common assault, racially or religiously aggravated common assault.

Source. OMS Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice.

Ref PO (OMSAS)010-09 (13/01/2009).

These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems.

Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.