HC Deb 20 March 2002 vol 382 cc400-2W
Mr. Grieve

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons are serving a sentence in jail in England and Wales for(a) driving while disqualified and (b) actual bodily harm. [42788]

Beverley Hughes

Data are not held centrally on those inmates serving sentences for driving while disqualified.

The number of persons serving sentences for assault on 31 January 2002:

Offence Number of sentenced prisoners
Other assault (ABH)1 190
Assault occasioning GBH2 881
All prisoners sentenced for offences of violence against the person. 11,933
1 Actual Bodily Harm
2 Grievous Bodily Harm

Mr. Grieve

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were committed to custody in 2000 for(a) driving while disqualified and (b) actual bodily harm; and what were the average sentence lengths. [42789]

Beverley Hughes

Information taken from the Home Office court proceedings database for 2000 showing the number of persons sentenced to immediate custody and average sentence length imposed for driving while disqualified and assaults occasioning actual bodily harm in England and Wales is given in the table.

Persons sentenced1 to immediate custody and the average sentence length imposed at all courts for driving while disqualified and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, England & Wales 20002
Offence Sentenced to immediate custody Average sentence length (months)
Driving while disqualified 12,501 3.5
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm 4,404 8.0
1 These data are on the 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 for 2000. Estimates based on this sample are included in the figures, as they are considered sufficiently robust at this high level of analysis.

Mr. Lammy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) young offenders were sentenced to serve non-custodial penalties, (b) offenders were sentenced to serve custodial penalties and (c) offenders were sentenced to serve non-custodial penalties in the last 12 months broken down by the Metropolitan police divisional area in which they were arrested. [42769]

Beverley Hughes

Information collected centrally does not allow a breakdown by police division within the Metropolitan police area, nor does it show where an arrest takes place.

The available information, from the Home Office court proceedings database, relating to 2000 is shown in the table. These data give for each inner London magistrates court and outer London borough (a) young offenders (aged 10-17) sentenced to non-custodial sentences, (b) adult offenders (aged 18 or over) sentenced to custodial sentences, and (c) adult offenders sentenced to non-custodial sentences.

Information on court proceedings for 2001 will be available in the autumn.

Young offenders sentenced to non-custodial penalties and adult offenders sentenced to custodial and non-custodial penalties in the Metropolitan police area, 2000.
Sentencing court (Committing court in Crown Court cases) Young offenders Non-custodial sentences Adult offenders
Custodial sentences Non-custodial sentences
Inner London magistrates courts1
Bow Street 3 745 4,757
Camberwell Green/Tower Bridge 31 1,576 10,730
Greenwich / Woolwich 19 1,407 7,362
Highbury Corner 10 1,268 8,833
Horseferry Road 15 1,419 10,808
Marylebone 5 261 11,528
South Western 18 607 10,730
Thames 59 1,105 5,291
West London 29 830 5,198
Camberwell youth court 1,097
South-western youth court 501
Thames youth court 1,052
West London youth court 1,155
Outer London boroughs
Barking and Dagenham 269 262 2,536
Havering 204 223 3,238
Redbridge 244 253 3,778
Newham 467 577 7,114
Waltham Forest 318 372 3,948
Bexley 233 203 1,445
Bromley 389 271 3,360
Croydon 578 330 5,528
Kingston-upon-Thames 204 203 2,490
Richmond-upon-Thames 183 155 2,074
Sutton 261 149 1,818
Merton 276 233 3,341
Ealing 321 325 2,920
Barnet 247 312 6,390
Brent 478 453 6,408
Enfield 299 341 4,829
Haringey 421 378 6,328
Harrow 198 177 2,975
Hillingdon 323 876 3,924
Hounslow 436 333 4,951
Other (not recorded) 16 174 175
Total 10,359 15,818 154,807
1 Information held centrally does not allow a breakdown of cases by borough in the inner London area.

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