§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the recordable offences which he categorises as antisocial behaviour. [177465]
§ Ms Blears[holding answer 9 June 2004]: All offences under provisions which carry the possibility of a custodial sentence are recordable. These are specified in the schedule for the National Police Records Regulations 2000.
The decision as to what constitutes anti-social behaviour is for local communities and those public bodies that serve them. It is for local bodies to look carefully at recorded crime statistics, recordable offences, British Crime Statistics, plus reports from local people in order to understand anti-social behaviour locally.