Criminal Offences (Hansard, 19 December 2002)

§ Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences were brought to justice in each of the Criminal Justice System areas in the last three years. [83676]

Offences brought to justice 1 by police force area: 2001–02, 2000–01 and 1999–2000––Absolute and percentage changes from 1999–2000
				Change 2000–01 to 2001–02	Change 1999–2000 to 2001–02
	OBTJ 2001–022	OBTJ 2000–01	OBTJ 1999–2000	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
Avon and Somerset	28,083	27,463	28,487	620	2.3	-404	-1.4
Bedfordshire	11,297	10,897	10,244	400	3.7	1,053	10.3
Cambridgeshire	10,783	11,465	13,503	-682	-5.9	-2,720	-20.1
Cheshire	15,211	17,186	18,505	-1,975	-11.5	-3,294	-17.8
Cleveland	14,603	14,546	15,427	57	0.4	-824	-5.3
Cumbria	9,985	9,779	12,255	206	2.1	-2,270	-18.5
Derbyshire	17,574	16,425	17,226	1,149	7.0	348	2.0
Devon and Cornwall	25,640	25,585	26,966	55	0.2	-1,326	-4.9
Dorset	11,756	10,719	12,031	1,037	9.7	-275	-2.3
Durham	13,723	12,900	12,869	823	6.4	854	6.6
Dyfed Powys	11,010	10,682	13,064	328	3.1	-2,054	-15.7
Essex	21,912	20,281	22,459	1,631	8.0	-547	-2.4
Gloucestershire	12,920	13,033	13,461	-113	-0.9	-541	-4.0
Greater Manchester	57,501	68,546	72,821	-11,045	-16.1	-15,320	-21.0
Gwent	16,892	16,902	18,899	-10	-0.1	-2,007	-10.6
Hampshire	31,848	32,254	35,655	-406	-1.3	-3,807	-10.7
Hertfordshire	13,573	13,488	13,856	85	0.6	-283	-2.0
Humberside	17,859	18,847	20,120	-988	-5.2	-2,261	-11.2
Kent	24,466	27,833	28,600	-3,367	-12.1	-4,134	-14.5
Lancashire	30,650	29,666	32,366	984	3.3	-1,716	-5.3
Leicestershire	19,580	18,157	20,177	1,423	7.8	-597	-3.0
Lincolnshire	13,125	10,256	10,488	2,869	28.0	2,637	25.1
Merseyside	30,613	32,321	30,699	-1,708	-5.3	-86	-0.3
Met. Area of London³	123,665	121,765	141,276	1,900	1.6	-17,611	-12.5
Norfolk	12,621	12,897	16,340	-276	-2.1	-3,719	-22.8
North Wales	13,226	12,551	13,960	675	5.4	-734	-5.3
North Yorkshire	12,339	12,300	14,380	39	0.3	-2,041	-14.2
Northamptonshire	13,204	13,940	13,963	-736	-5.3	-759	-5.4
Northumbria	41,514	40,128	43,952	1,386	3.5	-2,438	-5.5
Nottinghamshire	24,569	25,971	26,723	-1,402	-5.4	-2,154	-8.1
South Wales	30,977	28,792	33,856	2,185	7.6	-2,879	-8.5
South Yorkshire	24,383	25,812	27,685	-1,429	-5.5	-3,302	-11.9
Staffordshire⁴	21,197	22,640	20,603	-1,443	-6.4	594	2.9
Suffolk	12,034	11,768	11,808	266	2.3	226	1.9
Surrey	12,267	11,004	12,020	1,263	11.5	247	2.1
Sussex	22,724	20,256	20,276	2,468	12.2	2,448	12.1
Thames Valley	31,309	32,137	29,694	-828	-2.6	1,615	5.4
Warwickshire	8,092	7,057	7,709	1,035	14.7	383	5.0
West Mercia	22,444	20,478	21,587	1,966	9.6	857	4.0
West Midlands	79,707	72,001	74,971	7,706	10.7	4,736	6.3
West Yorkshire	46,928	53,033	61,149	-6,105	-11.5	-14,221	-23.3
Wiltshire	10,851	9,987	11,625	864	8.6	-774	-6.7
England and Wales	1,024,654	1,023,748	1,103,755	906	0.1	-79,102	-7.2
Comprised of:
TICs	91,084	88,657	97,640	2,427	2.7	-6,557	-6.7
Cautions	228,691	228,814	249,486	-123	-0.1	-20,795	-8.3
Convictions	704,879	706,277	756,629	-1,398	-0.2	-51,750	-6.8
¹ Offences brought to justice include TIC's, cautions and convictions for notifiable offences
² 2002 Q1 figures are provisional (including estimates of shortfalls) and are subject to change. Hence 2001–02 figures are also provisional.
³ Metropolitan area of London includes City of London.
⁴ Staffordshire supplied only four weeks data from magistrates courts in 2000. Hence both 1999–2000 and 2000–01 figures include estimates of shortfalls.