Antisocial Behaviour Orders (Hansard, 13 December 2001)

§ Mr. Denham

Official statistics on the number of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) issued are based on quarterly returns received from magistrates courts committees (MCC). A review identified an under-count and my Department therefore undertook an exercise with1004W the police to obtain more reliable figures. As a result of this reconciliation exercise the total number of ASBOs issued up until the end of September this year was 466, 184 more than previously reported. A breakdown by MCC area is given in the table.

Number of antisocial behaviour orders¹ issued up to 30 September 2001 by magistrates court committee area
MCC area	Up to 31 May 2000	1 June 2000 to 30 September 2001	Total
Avon and Somerset	9	19	28
Bedfordshire	—	2	2
Cambridgeshire	5	3	8
Cheshire	—	—	—
Cleveland	1	9	10
Cumbria	1	1	2
Derbyshire	3	9	12
Devon and Cornwall	1	9	10
Dorset	—	4	4
Durham	—	10	10
Essex	—	—	—
Gloucestershire	—	4	4
GLMCA2	9	31	40
Great Manchester	10	14	24
Hampshire	1	3	4
Hertfordshire	1	8	9
Humberside	—	11	11
Kent	—	15	15
Lancashire	5	11	16
Leicestershire	1	4	5
Lincolnshire	—	1	1
Merseyside	8	9	17
Norfolk	6	11	17
Northamptonshire	—	3	3
Northumbria	8	7	15
North Yorkshire	4	6	10
Nottinghamshire	1	15	16
South Yorkshire	3	3	6
Staffordshire		10	10
Suffolk	3	2	5
Surrey	—	4	4
Sussex	3	4	7
Thames Valley	1	6	7
Warwickshire	—	3	3
West Mercia	5	42	47
West Midlands	11	54	65
West Yorkshire	4	11	15
Wiltshire	—	—	—
Dyfed Powys	—	—	—
Gwent	—	1	1
North Wales	—	1	1
South Wales	—	2	2
England and Wales	104	466	466
¹ Implemented from 1 April 1999 and data collected centrally from 1 June 2000 (including data from reconciliation exercise)
² Greater London Magistrates Courts Authority