§ Mr. GrieveTo 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 HughesThe information requested is contained in the table.
Statistics on detention and training orders for 2001 will be published in the autumn.
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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.