HC Deb 08 March 2001 vol 364 cc318-9W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions there were(a) in each police force area and (b) in total in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [152371]

Mr. Charles Clarke

Information taken from the Home Office's Court Proceedings Database showing the number of persons convicted in(a) each police force area and (b) in total during 1999 is given in the table.

Offenders convicted1 by offence type and police force area, England and Wales 1999
Offence type
Police force Indictable offences Summary non-motoring offences Summary motoring offences Total all offences
Avon and Somerset 7,531 10,921 18,467 36,919
Bedfordshire 2,905 3,967 6,054 12,926
Cambridgeshire 3,689 1,573 7,027 12,289
Cheshire 6,641 6,607 11,098 24,346
City of London 581 1,753 4,122 6,456
Cleveland 5,742 6,646 5,185 17,573
Cumbria 3,662 4,971 7,337 15,970
Derbyshire 4,701 6,559 12,187 23,447
Devon and Cornwall 6,930 10,178 13,908 31,016
Dorset 3,572 4,259 5,486 13,317
Durham 4,329 3,805 6,763 14,897

Offenders convicted1 by offence type and police force area, England and Wales 1999
Offence type
Police force Indictable offences Summary non-motoring offences Summary motoring offences Total all offences
Essex 7,062 16,198 20,691 43,951
Gloucestershire 2,901 3,700 6,036 12,637
Greater Manchester 22,360 27,307 54,835 104,502
Hampshire 11,068 14,631 22,577 48,276
Hertfordshire 3,331 7,324 10,203 20,858
Humberside 6,327 8,736 9,056 24,119
Kent 8,817 4,653 11,445 24,915
Lancashire 12,044 13,495 21,249 46,788
Leicestershire 5,561 8,509 14,245 28,315
Lincolnshire 3,682 5,355 10,589 19,626
Merseyside 11,200 11,552 13,499 36,251
Metropolitan Police 51,538 79,401 63,387 194,326
Norfolk 4,293 4,410 7,627 16,330
North Yorkshire 4,558 5,037 7,317 16,912
Northamptonshire 3,969 5,705 6,614 16,288
Northumbria 12,712 16,629 16,375 45,716
Nottinghamshire 7,747 10,160 8,504 26,411
South Yorkshire 10,459 9,846 15,564 35,869
Staffordshire 5,535 4,040 19,987 29,562
Suffolk 3,362 4,337 7,202 14,901
Surrey 2,687 3,018 8,766 14,471
Sussex 6,693 8,732 12,241 27,666
Thames Valley 8,020 6,217 26,307 40,544
Warwickshire 2,216 3,193 7,316 12,725
West Mercia 5,814 6,519 11,727 24,060
West Midlands 21,835 27,071 33,391 82,297
West Yorkshire 19,976 22,176 34,916 77,068
Wiltshire 2,983 4,190 11,579 18,752
England 319,033 403,380 590,879 1,313,292
Dyfed Powys 3,527 4,828 5,428 13,783
Gwent 4,482 6,279 12,662 23,423
North Wales 4,325 5,266 6,524 16,115
South Wales 10,628 13,857 17,363 41,848
Wales 22,962 30,230 41,977 95,169
England and Wales 341,995 433,610 632,856 1,408,461
1 Data in this table are based on a person's principal offence as persons may be convicted of more than one offence.