§ Mr. Simon HughesTo 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 ClarkeInformation 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.
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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.