§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his definition is of a public disorder incident for the purposes of the performance measures and targets set out on page 4 of the Criminal Justice System Business Plan 2000–01. [143010]
§ Mr. Charles Clarke[holding answer 15 December, 2000]: The definition of a public disorder incident adopted for the purpose of the 2000–01 business plan is
a breach of the peace of which police are aware, which may require police intervention, or action in partnership with others.The offence codes covered by the definition are disturbance in public place/licensed premises/private property; drunkenness; domestic incident; march/ demonstration; civil dispute; racial/homophobic incident; neighbour dispute; other unlisted disorder/nuisance; public/sports events and hunt saboteurs. We are however considering whether alternative ways of measuring public disorder, including possibly a measure based on people's perceptions of disorder, should be used in future years.