Shoplifting

Mark Tami
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions for offences relating to shoplifting there have been in each police authority in each of the last five years. [113024]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth
The information requested is contained in the table.Statistics for 2002 will be available in the autumn.
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|Police force area  |
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|Avon and Somerset  |
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|Bedfordshire       |
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|Cambridgeshire     |
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|Cheshire           |
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|Cleveland          |
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|Cumbria            |
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|Derbyshire         |
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|Devon and Cornwall |
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|Dorset             |
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|Durham             |
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|Essex              |
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|Gloucestershire    |
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|Greater Manchester |
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|Hampshire          |
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|Hertfordshire      |
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|Humberside         |
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|Kent               |
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|Lancashire         |
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|Leicestershire     |
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|Lincolnshire       |
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|London, City of    |
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|Merseyside         |
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|Metropolitan Police|
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|Norfolk            |
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|Northamptonshire   |
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|Northumbria        |
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|North Yorkshire    |
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|Nottinghamshire    |
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|South Yorkshire    |
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|Staffordshire2     |
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|Suffolk            |
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|Surrey             |
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|Sussex             |
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|Thames Valley      |
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|Warwickshire       |
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|West Mercia        |
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|West Midlands      |
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|West Yorkshire     |
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|Wiltshire          |
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|Dyfed Powys        |
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|Gwent              |
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|North Wales        |
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|South Wales        |
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|England and Wales  |
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1 Principal offence basis.

2 Staffordshire Police were only able to supply a sample of data for magistrates courts proceedings covering one full week in each quarter of 2000. Estimates based on this sample are included in the figures, as they are considered sufficiently robust at this level of analysis.