§ Mr. Colvinasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many orders excluding certain categories of convicted persons from licensed premises have been made since the Licensed Premises (Exclusion of Certain Persons) Act 1980 became law; and if he will publish a table showing a breakdown by type of conviction and by local authority or any other appropriate area.
§ Mr. MellorRecords available to us, which may be incomplete, concerning orders made under the Licensed Premises (Exclusion of Certain Persons) Act 1980, do not include details of the offences that give rise to such orders being made. The available information is given in the following table. Information for 1983 is not yet available.
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Orders made under the Licensed Premises (Exclusions of Certain Persons) Act 1980 in the period from 30 June 1980 to the end of 1982 by police force area. England and Wales Number of Orders Police force area Avon and Somerset 4 Bedfordshire 1 Cambridgeshire 5 Cheshire 14 Cleveland 8 Cumbria — Derbyshire 1 Devon and Cornwall — Dorset 5 Durham 2 Essex — Gloucestershire 15 Greater Manchester 14 Hampshire 12 Hertfordshire — Humberside 11 Kent — Lancashire — Leicestershire 4 Lincolnshire 3 City of London — Merseyside 1 Metropolitan Police District 2 Norfolk 2 Northamptonshire — Northumbria 1 North Yorkshire — Nottinghamshire 19 South Yorkshire 1 Staffordshire —
England and Wales Number of Orders Suffolk — Surrey — Sussex 7 Thames Valley 14 Warwickshire 3 West Mercia 2 West Midlands 12 West Yorkshire 7 Wiltshire 4 Dyfed Powys 8 Gwent — North Wales 9 South Wales 7 Total 198