HC Deb 12 January 1989 vol 144 cc724-7W
Mr. Bermingham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of(a) 17 to 20-year-olds and (b) adults, were sentenced to immediate custody for violence against the person, sexual offences, burglary, robbery, theft and handling, fraud and forgery, criminal damage, drug offences and indictment motoring, in magistrates and Crown courts, by each police force area during 1987; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. John Patten

[holding answer 19 December 1988]: The information available is given in the following tables. Numbers sentenced for sexual offences and for robbery are very small for individual forces so that percentages based on these would be misleading.

Violence against the person Burglary Theft and handling Fraud and forgery Criminal damage Drug offences Indictable motoring
Dorset 13.5 22.2 7.2 14.3 117.6 10.0 6.4
Durham 20.9 35.2 11.8 10.5 156.5 10.0 17.1
Essex 24.2 35.7 11.5 10.1 12.2 111.5 21.4
Gloucester 14.8 23.8 6.9 4.6 9.8 18.0 8.2
Greater Manchester 25.9 42.4 14.7 5.3 19.7 7.8 27.3
Hampshire 14.9 26.8 8.5 6.3 10.5 11.5 13.8
Hertfordshire 21.3 29.7 11.1 8.1 31.6 10.0 23.5
Humberside 20.7 40.4 11.9 2.7 118.4 13.2 16.5
Kent 20.8 28.6 11.5 7.7 26.1 12.3 12.5
Lancashire 17.8 34.7 11.0 6.5 18.3 9.0 20.0
Leicestershire 22.7 36.6 9.7 7.7 16.3 18.0 20.0
Lincolnshire 15.3 27.9 5.9 1.9 18.0 19.1 16.9
City of London 10.0 128.6 7.1 112.5 0.0 10.0 0.0
Merseyside 21.1 43.7 13.6 6.0 112.9 19.8 28.2
Metropolitan Police 24.7 37.6 12.3 8.9 18.8 11.4 24.4
Norfolk 19.2 35.9 7.7 10.8 8.3 111.4 9.4
Northamptonshire 21.2 37.2 11.0 17.0 112.7 10.0 8.5
Northumbria 25.9 37.5 11.7 3.8 25.3 110.3 17.8
North Yorkshire 12.8 36.7 11.3 7.7 12.7 13.1 9.6
Nottinghamshire 18.9 41.5 11.9 9.3 21.1 16.5 22.7
South Yorkshire 21.4 35.2 10.3 2.9 21.9 10.0 16.2
Staffordshire 11.6 35.9 10.1 8.0 18.8 13.1 12.1
Suffolk 20.3 34.3 8.7 111.1 8.1 16.5 5.7
Surrey 16.5 34.0 8.6 16.3 5.9 5.7 12.7
Sussex 15.6 30.6 9.5 8.8 14.0 9.6 10.3
Thames Valley 19.7 38.5 11.3 9.2 13.5 1.7 13.7
Warwickshire 23.0 42.4 14.2 13.6 117.1 110.0 113.0
West Mercia 20.1 30.2 12.9 11.9 11.6 14.2 16.1
West Midlands 26.0 41.1 14.8 9.8 19.4 1.6 25.1
West Yorkshire 24.2 36.4 11.9 8.0 15.0 1.0 18.4
Wiltshire 19.7 26.3 6.3 15.9 19.3 17.1 10.4
Dyfed Powys 4.0 29.8 5.9 10.0 5.1 10.0 110.5
Gwent 11.9 28.8 7.7 0.0 110.5 10.0 14.1
North Wales 14.1 32.7 5.8 9.4 15.1 3.7 4.1
South Wales 17.2 35.1 8.8 1.4 13.8 5.6 15.8
England 21.5 37.0 11.6 7.6 16.8 8.6 17.9
Wales 14.0 32.9 7.8 2.4 11.4 3.6 12.2
England and Wales 21.1 36.7 11.3 7.3 16.4 8.3 17.6
1 Based upon under 50 persons sentenced.

Table 2
Proportion of persons aged 21 and over sentenced at all courts for indictable offences given immediate custody.

England and Wales 1987
Violence against the person Burglary Theft and handling Fraud and forgery Criminal damage Drug offences Indictable motoring
Avon and Somerset 15.0 36.0 9.0 14.9 5.1 10.0 14.2
Bedfordshire 24.5 47.0 12.2 23.1 114.8 23.2 16.1
Cambridgeshire 15.1 45.6 12.1 19.7 18.1 30.3 13.0
Cheshire 21.9 49.2 17.0 16.0 14.8 23.5 13.2
Cleveland 16.1 35.6 8.5 9.6 26.6 6.6 12.5
Cumbria 12.0 47.3 10.0 9.8 17.3 7.4 7.9
Derbyshire 25.4 50.1 12.7 20.6 12.5 32.3 19.9
Devon and Cornwall 20.8 41.6 11.7 15.9 21.1 11.3 1.5
Dorset 14.2 31.9 9.7 15.5 121.3 15.5 10.1
Durham 17.4 45.9 11.3 19.6 120.8 25.0 13.7
Essex 25.9 45.6 12.9 15.7 24.1 25.3 16.2
Gloucester 15.2 29.3 7.0 13.3 17.5 17.5 13.9
Greater Manchester 24.2 43.9 13.5 20.0 16.7 26.1 17.2
Hampshire 19.4 34.5 9.0 16.4 13.3 20.9 13.1
Hertfordshire 23.3 38.2 11.1 14.4 122.9 16.8 7.8
Humberside 20.1 38.3 9.5 15.3 17.0 38.0 13.6
Kent 22.3 42.4 14.0 18.3 25.3 32.9 14.5
Lancashire 19.2 38.6 12.9 14.3 14.5 14.1 13.7
Leicestershire 19.2 42.1 10.7 22.4 13.6 14.8 9.9
Lincolnshire 12.7 43.1 8.1 10.2 119.0 114.3 10.0
City of London 16.2 46.0 25.0 20.9 10.0 17.1 16.3
Merseyside 23.6 52.1 15.1 19.2 17.0 30.9 18.7
Metropolitan Police 23.4 45.3 15.7 20.0 17.8 32.8 18.9
Norfolk 20.6 39.5 12.9 18.0 18.2 18.2 9.6
Northamptonshire 25.0 47.7 12.6 13.0 18.1 32.1 7.2
Northumbria 21.3 38.8 10.2 14.8 12.7 19.9 16.5
North Yorkshire 16.4 41.8 11.9 20.0 12.0 1.0 14.4

Violence against the person Burglary Theft and handling Fraud and forgery Criminal damage Drug offences Indictable motoring
Nottinghamshire 16.7 41.3 10.2 16.0 13.2 26.0 12.6
South Yorkshire 17.2 37.2 8.7 20.8 19.5 29.0 19.6
Staffordshire 13.0 39.3 9.8 17.4 15.4 10.4 10.7
Suffolk 16.3 34.6 10.6 16.7 14.1 17.8 7.5
Surrey 14.6 42.3 11.9 12.0 12.1 11.3 10.6
Sussex 19.9 41.7 12.2 20.5 19.0 30.8 12.1
Thames Valley 22.7 40.7 13.0 18.8 14.2 21.7 13.2
Warwickshire 28.3 43.9 13.5 16.4 15.3 18.9 11.5
West Mercia 17.3 40.2 10.8 17.4 21.5 13.9 13.5
West Midlands 27.8 44.2 13.5 18.0 24.2 19.6 18.6
West Yorkshire 22.0 41.7 11.8 20.8 12.0 11.5 18.8
Wiltshire 17.4 38.8 8.9 15.3 18.5 7.3 6.3
Dyfed Powys 10.4 38.7 6.2 11.9 4.2 11.2 5.1
Gwent 12.4 37.3 6.9 7.9 15.7 10.3 14.4
North Wales 14.8 53.6 7.9 17.9 8.6 8.3 10.7
South Wales 21.1 30.7 7.8 8.9 17.5 13.1 10.3
England 20.9 42.3 12.6 17.9 16.9 25.3 15.0
Wales 16.5 37.6 7.5 10.7 12.2 11.6 10.5
England and Wales 20.6 42.0 12.2 17.5 16.5 24.6 14.7
1 Based upon fewer than 50 persons sentenced.