HC Deb 21 May 2002 vol 386 cc264-5W
Mr. Grieve

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) detention and training orders and (b) referral orders have been imposed in each police force area in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement. [55854]

Beverley Hughes

The information requested is contained in the table.

Statistics on detention and training orders for 2001 will be published in the autumn.

Offenders given detention and training orders or referral orders by police force area, 2000 and 2001, England and Wales
Police force Detention and training orders1,2 Referral orders3,4
Avon and Somerset 67
Bedfordshire 53
Cambridgeshire 44
Cheshire 80
Cleveland 86
Cumbria 65
Derbyshire 86
Devon and Cornwall 22
Dorset 31
Durham 71
Essex 107
Gloucestershire 47
Greater Manchester 445
Hampshire 193
Hertfordshire 52
Humberside 72
Kent 114
Lancashire 139 152
Leicestershire 120
Lincolnshire 27
London, City of
Merseyside 193
Metropolitan police 738 115
Norfolk 27
Northamptonshire 29
Northumbria 158
North Yorkshire 81
Nottinghamshire 164 867

Offenders given detention and training orders or referral orders by police force area, 2000 and 2001, England and Wales
Police force Detention and training orders1,2 Referral orders3,4
South Yorkshire 159
Staffordshire5
Suffolk 42 408
Surrey 27
Sussex 74
Thames Valley 132 415
Warwickshire 47
West Mercia 86
West Midlands 525
West Yorkshire 234
Wiltshire 35 436
Dyfed-Powys 10
Gwent 35
North Wales 60
South Wales 221 339
Total England and Wales 4,998 2,732
1 Introduced 1 April 2000
2 All areas, 1 April 2000 to 31 December 2000
3 Piloted in seven areas from April 2000—to be introduced nationally from May 2002. Figures are approximate as orders made in August and September 2001 have been estimated.
4 Pilot areas, 1 April 2000 to 31 December 2001
5 Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table.