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To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of (1) reductions in duty on cider, beer and spirits announced in this year’s Budget, and (2) the ending of the alcohol duty escalator, will have on (a) rates of alcohol consumption, and (b) burdens on the...

Asked by

Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

HM Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 March 2015

Reference

HL5934

House

House of Lords

Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs: Crime

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people in each police authority were convicted of alcohol and drug offences in each of the last four years; and what are those figures as a percentage of the population in each police authority area.

Asked by

Lord Roberts of Llandudno (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

17 March 2015

For answer on

31 March 2015

Answered on

25 March 2015

Alcohol and drug offences can have a very serious impact on individuals and wider communities, while also being a burden on our courts. This is why we have tough sentences in place for the most serious offences, including a life sentence for supply of Class A drugs.

Our approach on drugs remains clear. We must prevent drug abuse in our communities, help dependent individuals through treatment and wider recovery support, while ensuring law enforcement protects society by stopping the supply.

The number of people found guilty at all courts of alcohol and drug offences, by police force area, in England and Wales, and the figures as a percentage of the population in each police authority area, from 2009 to 2013 (the latest available) can be viewed in the table.

Court proceedings data for 2014 are planned for publication in May 2015.

Persons found guilty at all courts for alcohol related offences ⁽¹⁾ and drug offences ⁽²⁾ for each police force area in England and Wales, 2009 to 2013 ⁽³⁾⁽⁴⁾
	Found guilty					% of population⁽⁵⁾
	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Alcohol related offences⁽¹⁾
Avon and Somerset	1,619	1,328	1,384	1,304	1,219	0.099%	0.081%	0.085%	0.080%	0.075%
Bedfordshire	620	604	546	527	408	0.098%	0.095%	0.086%	0.083%	0.064%
Cambridgeshire	804	782	687	640	632	0.098%	0.095%	0.084%	0.078%	0.077%
Cheshire	1,388	1,237	1,215	1,180	913	0.134%	0.120%	0.117%	0.114%	0.088%
Cleveland	770	635	519	508	476	0.138%	0.113%	0.093%	0.091%	0.085%
Cumbria	561	470	434	476	409	0.113%	0.094%	0.087%	0.096%	0.082%
Derbyshire	991	837	791	804	655	0.096%	0.081%	0.077%	0.078%	0.064%
Devon and Cornwall	1,724	1,512	1,496	1,453	1,254	0.102%	0.089%	0.088%	0.086%	0.074%
Dorset	750	635	650	567	644	0.099%	0.084%	0.086%	0.075%	0.085%
Durham	714	632	560	510	434	0.115%	0.102%	0.090%	0.082%	0.070%
Essex	2,016	1,613	1,421	1,095	1,254	0.115%	0.092%	0.081%	0.062%	0.072%
Gloucestershire	623	538	553	416	428	0.103%	0.089%	0.091%	0.069%	0.071%
Greater Manchester	3,119	2,632	2,310	2,500	2,134	0.115%	0.097%	0.085%	0.092%	0.079%
Hampshire	2,026	1,921	1,767	1,519	1,433	0.105%	0.100%	0.092%	0.079%	0.074%
Hertfordshire	1,312	1,223	1,062	1,027	823	0.115%	0.107%	0.093%	0.090%	0.072%
Humberside	976	853	812	773	678	0.106%	0.092%	0.088%	0.084%	0.074%
Kent	1,815	1,572	1,485	1,253	1,197	0.103%	0.089%	0.084%	0.071%	0.068%
Lancashire	1,886	1,554	1,395	1,299	1,158	0.128%	0.106%	0.095%	0.088%	0.079%
Leicestershire	974	886	826	750	725	0.094%	0.086%	0.080%	0.073%	0.070%
Lincolnshire	839	718	693	719	701	0.116%	0.099%	0.096%	0.099%	0.097%
City of London⁽⁶⁾	79	108	117	-	-	1.033%	1.412%	1.530%	0.000%	0.000%
Merseyside	1,605	1,232	1,172	1,037	933	0.116%	0.089%	0.085%	0.075%	0.067%
Metropolitan Police	8,811	7,588	6,667	5,560	5,578	0.105%	0.090%	0.079%	0.066%	0.066%
Norfolk	777	684	659	825	676	0.089%	0.079%	0.076%	0.095%	0.078%
Northamptonshire	745	721	697	736	637	0.105%	0.102%	0.099%	0.104%	0.090%
Northumbria	1,719	1,410	1,328	1,279	1,116	0.120%	0.099%	0.093%	0.089%	0.078%
North Yorkshire	985	804	718	750	694	0.122%	0.100%	0.089%	0.093%	0.086%
Nottinghamshire	1,229	1,021	916	977	845	0.111%	0.092%	0.083%	0.088%	0.076%
South Yorkshire	1,522	1,151	1,066	935	861	0.112%	0.085%	0.078%	0.069%	0.063%
Staffordshire	1,247	1,005	980	977	859	0.113%	0.091%	0.089%	0.088%	0.078%
Suffolk	734	577	608	692	607	0.100%	0.078%	0.083%	0.094%	0.082%
Surrey	1,068	887	943	973	924	0.093%	0.077%	0.082%	0.084%	0.080%
Sussex	1,601	1,426	1,361	1,286	1,098	0.098%	0.087%	0.083%	0.079%	0.067%
Thames Valley	2,046	1,975	1,960	1,903	1,839	0.088%	0.085%	0.085%	0.082%	0.079%
Warwickshire	723	585	434	467	455	0.132%	0.107%	0.079%	0.085%	0.083%
West Mercia	1,315	1,233	1,290	1,310	1,159	0.106%	0.100%	0.104%	0.106%	0.094%
West Midlands	3,499	2,354	2,565	2,263	1,822	0.126%	0.085%	0.092%	0.081%	0.065%
West Yorkshire	2,332	1,910	1,690	1,692	1,500	0.104%	0.085%	0.075%	0.075%	0.067%
Wiltshire	474	482	467	497	476	0.068%	0.069%	0.067%	0.072%	0.069%
Dyfed Powys	580	528	521	543	441	0.112%	0.102%	0.101%	0.105%	0.085%
Gwent	705	490	578	513	436	0.122%	0.085%	0.100%	0.089%	0.075%
North Wales	906	765	635	667	623	0.131%	0.111%	0.092%	0.096%	0.090%
South Wales	1,825	1,447	1,462	1,149	1,131	0.141%	0.112%	0.113%	0.089%	0.087%
England and Wales	62,054	52,565	49,440	46,351	42,285	0.109%	0.092%	0.087%	0.081%	0.074%
All Drug Offences including Summary Drug Offences ⁽²⁾
Avon and Somerset	1,113	1,328	1,597	1,827	1,758	0.068%	0.081%	0.098%	0.112%	0.108%
Bedfordshire	388	481	492	470	430	0.061%	0.076%	0.078%	0.074%	0.068%
Cambridgeshire	570	599	653	586	592	0.069%	0.073%	0.080%	0.071%	0.072%
Cheshire	724	801	728	793	753	0.070%	0.077%	0.070%	0.077%	0.073%
Cleveland	1,020	1,023	922	810	823	0.182%	0.183%	0.165%	0.145%	0.147%
Cumbria	640	646	793	641	603	0.128%	0.130%	0.159%	0.129%	0.121%
Derbyshire	687	834	905	813	824	0.067%	0.081%	0.088%	0.079%	0.080%
Devon and Cornwall	1,212	1,426	1,487	1,069	1,010	0.072%	0.084%	0.088%	0.063%	0.060%
Dorset	577	555	476	438	429	0.076%	0.074%	0.063%	0.058%	0.057%
Durham	428	460	336	314	310	0.069%	0.074%	0.054%	0.051%	0.050%
Essex	1,161	1,255	1,361	1,017	1,216	0.066%	0.072%	0.078%	0.058%	0.069%
Gloucestershire	524	494	403	420	446	0.087%	0.082%	0.067%	0.069%	0.074%
Greater Manchester	3,197	3,830	3,887	3,347	2,985	0.118%	0.141%	0.143%	0.123%	0.110%
Hampshire	1,714	1,817	1,736	1,848	1,860	0.089%	0.094%	0.090%	0.096%	0.097%
Hertfordshire	985	1,168	1,150	1,174	1,115	0.086%	0.102%	0.101%	0.103%	0.098%
Humberside	726	736	872	878	876	0.079%	0.080%	0.095%	0.095%	0.095%
Kent	1,293	1,431	1,328	1,188	1,312	0.073%	0.081%	0.075%	0.067%	0.074%
Lancashire	1,655	1,912	1,673	1,740	1,460	0.113%	0.130%	0.114%	0.118%	0.099%
Leicestershire	538	677	566	552	474	0.052%	0.066%	0.055%	0.053%	0.046%
Lincolnshire	456	452	468	387	416	0.063%	0.062%	0.065%	0.053%	0.057%
City of London⁽⁶⁾	78	97	120	-	-	1.020%	1.268%	1.569%	0.000%	0.000%
Merseyside	3,844	4,171	3,865	3,560	3,007	0.277%	0.301%	0.279%	0.257%	0.217%
Metropolitan Police	12,695	13,924	13,764	12,722	13,379	0.151%	0.166%	0.164%	0.151%	0.159%
Norfolk	580	679	710	707	723	0.067%	0.078%	0.082%	0.081%	0.083%
Northamptonshire	335	507	434	419	498	0.047%	0.072%	0.061%	0.059%	0.070%
Northumbria	1,460	1,547	1,919	1,843	1,561	0.102%	0.108%	0.134%	0.129%	0.109%
North Yorkshire	576	616	615	526	488	0.072%	0.077%	0.076%	0.065%	0.061%
Nottinghamshire	1,019	1,187	1,203	942	875	0.092%	0.107%	0.109%	0.085%	0.079%
South Yorkshire	1,364	1,520	1,547	1,508	1,544	0.100%	0.112%	0.114%	0.111%	0.114%
Staffordshire	626	701	651	725	843	0.057%	0.063%	0.059%	0.065%	0.076%
Suffolk	534	415	482	551	634	0.073%	0.056%	0.065%	0.075%	0.086%
Surrey	610	620	749	976	914	0.053%	0.054%	0.065%	0.085%	0.079%
Sussex	1,420	1,420	1,414	1,291	1,214	0.087%	0.087%	0.087%	0.079%	0.074%
Thames Valley	1,916	1,929	1,714	1,839	1,868	0.083%	0.083%	0.074%	0.079%	0.081%
Warwickshire	205	299	184	215	210	0.037%	0.054%	0.034%	0.039%	0.038%
West Mercia	606	605	621	676	619	0.049%	0.049%	0.050%	0.055%	0.050%
West Midlands	3,171	2,940	2,999	2,762	2,529	0.114%	0.106%	0.108%	0.099%	0.091%
West Yorkshire	2,105	2,434	2,340	2,241	1,965	0.093%	0.108%	0.104%	0.100%	0.087%
Wiltshire	407	328	317	320	407	0.059%	0.047%	0.046%	0.046%	0.059%
Dyfed Powys	705	828	797	938	995	0.136%	0.160%	0.154%	0.182%	0.193%
Gwent	542	537	631	628	627	0.094%	0.093%	0.109%	0.108%	0.108%
North Wales	537	619	553	458	490	0.078%	0.089%	0.080%	0.066%	0.071%
South Wales	1,891	2,133	2,196	1,966	1,905	0.146%	0.165%	0.170%	0.152%	0.147%
England and Wales	56,834	61,981	61,658	58,125	56,987	0.100%	0.109%	0.108%	0.102%	0.100%

-' =- Nil

(1) Includes offences under sections 6(2B)(2C) of Licensing Act 1902, and sections 137,138,141,142,145,146,147,149(1)(3)(4)7A, 7B,150,151,152,153,156,157 of Licencing Act 2003 ,Confiscation of Alcohol (Young Persons) Act 1997 S.1,Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc) Act 1985 SS.1(4), 1A(4),2(1)(2),ss5B(3),5C(4), 5D(3)1(2)(3),1A(2)(3),3(10)5B(2)5C(3)5D(2)5C(5),6(2), Policing and Crime Act 2009 S.30, Road Traffic Act 1988 S.5(1)(a)(b),Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 S.12,Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 Sch.12 P.5

(2) Includes Sections 12, 13, 19(a), (b) Criminal Justice Co-Operation Act 1990, RR.6(5), 7, 8, & 9(2) Controlled Drugs (Drug Precursors)(Community External Trade) Regs 2008, Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (SS.50(2), (3) & (5), 68 (2) & (4) & 170(1), (2), (3) & (4) & Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 SS 327-330, 333, 334 (1,2) & 336 (5) & (6)

(3) 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.

(4) The conviction statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.

(5) Population estimates mid 2013 England and Wales.

(6) City of London Local Justice Area abolished on 31 December 2011, and merged into Central London Local Justice Area. These data recorded under Metropolitan Police henceforth

Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.
Ref: PQs HL5791

Date

25 March 2015

Reference

HL5791

House

House of Lords

Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations

Laid by

Secretary Elizabeth Truss

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

23 March 2015

Reference

SI 2015/810

House

House of Lords; House of Commons

Government Departments: Staff

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Bates on 18 December 2014 (HL3693) and by Lord Henley on 13 March 2013 (WA 73) and 10 January 2012 (WA37–8), which Home Office Minister authorised the decision to withhold from Parliament the names of the Home Office...

Asked by

Lord Marlesford (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 February 2015

Reference

HL4039

House

House of Lords

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015

My Lords, the financial services industry matters greatly to our economy, which is why the Government have taken wide-ranging action to ensure the integrity and stability of financial services in the UK. A framework of legislation for financial market benchmarks was introduced in response to the LIBOR scandal, when the...

Member

Lord Newby (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

10 February 2015

Reference

759 cc297-9GC

House

House of Lords

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015

I apologise to the Committee and to the Minister for being two minutes late for his opening statement, having been in the Chamber for the Recall of MPs Bill. I then heard the call of the noble Lord, Lord Newby, so I thought that I had better do that instead.

There...

Member

Lord Soley (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

10 February 2015

Reference

759 c299GC

House

House of Lords

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015

My Lords, I thank the Minister for presenting this order and explaining it to us. I also thank my noble friend Lord Soley for coming along to swell our numbers. We have had so many interesting debates just between the two of us that three is difficult to cope with.

As...

Member

Lord Tunnicliffe (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

10 February 2015

Reference

759 cc299-301GC

House

House of Lords

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015

My Lords, I am grateful to both noble Lords who have participated in this debate, particularly to the noble Lord, Lord Soley, for breaking up our traditional duet. He asked about the relationship between this order and the developing EU plans to do roughly the same thing. Negotiations are going...

Member

Lord Newby (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

10 February 2015

Reference

759 c300GC

House

House of Lords

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015

How will this measure come off the statute book? Is it because it is identical to another? I understand that this measure will have to come off the statute book.

Member

Lord Soley (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

10 February 2015

Reference

759 c300GC

House

House of Lords

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015

I will write to the noble Lord if I am wrong, but I believe that if an EU regulation is passed which covers the same area as existing domestic legislation, it automatically supersedes it under the terms of the 1974 legislation.

As regards criminal charges and the criminal system, the relevant...

Member

Lord Newby (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

10 February 2015

Reference

759 cc302-3GC

House

House of Lords

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015

Am I right that in five of the seven indices the manipulation that happened in LIBOR, which was essentially submitters manipulating the index for their fellow bankers, and so on, would not take place? If someone tried to manipulate the benchmark, particularly in the five I mentioned, he would have...

Member

Lord Tunnicliffe (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

10 February 2015

Reference

759 c303GC

House

House of Lords

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015

The noble Lord is absolutely right. The point I was seeking to make was that it is not impossible to do it but the costs of doing it are potentially greater.

Member

Lord Newby (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

10 February 2015

Reference

759 c303GC

House

House of Lords

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015

More than a bottle of champagne?

Member

Lord Tunnicliffe (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

10 February 2015

Reference

759 c303GC

House

House of Lords

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015

Probably more than a case of champagne.

The noble Lord asked what happens if there are errors and who would pay up? If there were an error in the way in which the system worked, the administrators

would pay up. That is obviously different from what happens if damages are caused because...

Member

Lord Newby (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

10 February 2015

Reference

759 cc303-4GC

House

House of Lords

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Lead member

Lord Newby

Answering member

Lord Tunnicliffe

Department

Treasury

Type

Debates on delegated legislation

Date

10 February 2015

Reference

759 cc297-304GC

House

House of Lords

Drugs: Crime

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people have been prosecuted for (1) human trafficking offences, and (2) other offences, as a result of the Metropolitan Police's Operation Pibera and similar operations across the United Kingdom which target criminals who use children to traffic drugs across county boundaries.

Asked by

Baroness Doocey (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 February 2015

Reference

HL4299

House

House of Lords

Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2015

My Lords, the draft order, which was laid before Parliament on 17 December 2014, supports the Government’s ongoing efforts to disrupt the supply of new psychoactive substances where the evidence and expert advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs—the ACMD—indicate that they are dangerous drugs. This House...

Member

Baroness Williams of Trafford (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

29 January 2015

Reference

759 cc183-4GC

House

House of Lords

Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2015

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that explanation. We welcome the order. It is one of a series of orders we have considered on which we have discussed issues around so-called legal highs. I know that neither she nor I like that term but, unfortunately, it is...

Member

Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

29 January 2015

Reference

759 cc184-5GC

House

House of Lords

Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2015

I thank the noble Baroness for her helpful comments. I fully agree with her points about glamorising these drugs by using the unhelpful term “legal high”, the online availability of some of these drugs and the head shops continuing to try to race ahead of where the legislation has got...

Member

Baroness Williams of Trafford (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

29 January 2015

Reference

759 c185GC

House

House of Lords

Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2015

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Lead member

Baroness Williams of Trafford

Answering member

Baroness Smith of Basildon

Department

Home Office

Type

Debates on delegated legislation

Date

29 January 2015

Reference

759 cc183-5GC

House

House of Lords

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