Crime

Chris Huhne
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many employees of his Department and its agencies were convicted of a criminal offence of each type in each year since 1997.

Alan Johnson
[holding answer 30 November 2009]: We can provide complete information relating to this question only at a disproportionate cost. However, the information we do hold is set out in table 1 as follows.

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|                    |Number|
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|1998                |1—    |
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|1999                |1—    |
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|2000                |0     |
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|2001                |1—    |
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|2002                |1—    |
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|2003                |1—    |
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|2004                |1—    |
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|2005                |1—    |
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|2006                |15    |
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|2007                |9     |
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|2008                |8     |
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|2009 (to 31 October)|7     |
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|1 Less than 5.      |      |
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