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Written question asked by Neil Gerrard (Labour) on Tuesday, 9 February 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 22 February 2010. It was answered by Alan Campbell (Labour) on Monday, 22 February 2010 on behalf of the Home Office.


Crime

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) fixed penalty notices, (b) conditional cautions and (c) public disorder notices were issued in England and Wales in each year since 2005.
Answer

Information on the number of fixed penalty notices for motoring offences issued from 2005 to 2007 can be found in table A. Data on fixed penalty notices for 2008 are scheduled to be published on 15 April 2010.Information provided by the Ministry of Justice, on the number of penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) issued in England and Wales 2005 to 2008 can be viewed in table B.Data on conditional cautions are not available as they are not separately identified in the data on cautions reported to the Ministry of Justice.

Table A: Number of fixed penalty notices issued for motoring offences, England and Wales 2005-07
Number of fixed penalty notices issued¹
2005 3,203,000
2006 3,018,000
2007 2,627,000
¹ Figures rounded to the nearest thousand
Table B: Number of penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) issued to offenders of ages 16 and over in England and Wales, 2005-08¹
Total PNDs issued²
2005 146,481
2006 201,197
2007 207,544
2008 176,164
¹ Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
² PNDs were rolled out nationally on 1 April 2004.
Source:
Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice. Ref: 071-10

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
506 c336-7W; 317275
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Crime
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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