§ Mr. GrieveTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons are serving a sentence in jail in England and Wales for(a) driving while disqualified and (b) actual bodily harm. [42788]
§ Beverley HughesData are not held centrally on those inmates serving sentences for driving while disqualified.
The number of persons serving sentences for assault on 31 January 2002:
Offence Number of sentenced prisoners Other assault (ABH)1 190 Assault occasioning GBH2 881 All prisoners sentenced for offences of violence against the person. 11,933 1 Actual Bodily Harm 2 Grievous Bodily Harm
§ Mr. GrieveTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were committed to custody in 2000 for(a) driving while disqualified and (b) actual bodily harm; and what were the average sentence lengths. [42789]
§ Beverley HughesInformation taken from the Home Office court proceedings database for 2000 showing the number of persons sentenced to immediate custody and average sentence length imposed for driving while disqualified and assaults occasioning actual bodily harm in England and Wales is given in the table.
Persons sentenced1 to immediate custody and the average sentence length imposed at all courts for driving while disqualified and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, England & Wales 20002 Offence Sentenced to immediate custody Average sentence length (months) Driving while disqualified 12,501 3.5 Assault occasioning actual bodily harm 4,404 8.0 1 These data are on the principal offence basis. 2 Staffordshire police were only able to supply a sample of data for magistrates courts proceedings covering one full week in each quarter for 2000. Estimates based on this sample are included in the figures, as they are considered sufficiently robust at this high level of analysis.
§ Mr. LammyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) young offenders were sentenced to serve non-custodial penalties, (b) offenders were sentenced to serve custodial penalties and (c) offenders were sentenced to serve non-custodial penalties in the last 12 months broken down by the Metropolitan police divisional area in which they were arrested. [42769]
§ Beverley HughesInformation collected centrally does not allow a breakdown by police division within the Metropolitan police area, nor does it show where an arrest takes place.
The available information, from the Home Office court proceedings database, relating to 2000 is shown in the table. These data give for each inner London magistrates court and outer London borough (a) young offenders (aged 10-17) sentenced to non-custodial sentences, 402W (b) adult offenders (aged 18 or over) sentenced to custodial sentences, and (c) adult offenders sentenced to non-custodial sentences.
Information on court proceedings for 2001 will be available in the autumn.
Young offenders sentenced to non-custodial penalties and adult offenders sentenced to custodial and non-custodial penalties in the Metropolitan police area, 2000. Sentencing court (Committing court in Crown Court cases) Young offenders Non-custodial sentences Adult offenders Custodial sentences Non-custodial sentences Inner London magistrates courts1 Bow Street 3 745 4,757 Camberwell Green/Tower Bridge 31 1,576 10,730 Greenwich / Woolwich 19 1,407 7,362 Highbury Corner 10 1,268 8,833 Horseferry Road 15 1,419 10,808 Marylebone 5 261 11,528 South Western 18 607 10,730 Thames 59 1,105 5,291 West London 29 830 5,198 Camberwell youth court 1,097 — — South-western youth court 501 — — Thames youth court 1,052 — — West London youth court 1,155 — — Outer London boroughs Barking and Dagenham 269 262 2,536 Havering 204 223 3,238 Redbridge 244 253 3,778 Newham 467 577 7,114 Waltham Forest 318 372 3,948 Bexley 233 203 1,445 Bromley 389 271 3,360 Croydon 578 330 5,528 Kingston-upon-Thames 204 203 2,490 Richmond-upon-Thames 183 155 2,074 Sutton 261 149 1,818 Merton 276 233 3,341 Ealing 321 325 2,920 Barnet 247 312 6,390 Brent 478 453 6,408 Enfield 299 341 4,829 Haringey 421 378 6,328 Harrow 198 177 2,975 Hillingdon 323 876 3,924 Hounslow 436 333 4,951 Other (not recorded) 16 174 175 Total 10,359 15,818 154,807 1 Information held centrally does not allow a breakdown of cases by borough in the inner London area.