§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many applications for orders relating to child custody were heard at each(a) Crown Court centre and (b) magistrates' court area in England in the last year for which information is available; what proportion were granted; how many were ex-parte applications; and what proportion of ex-parte applications were granted. [157609]
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§ Mr. LeslieApplications for child custody are made in the county courts and family proceedings courts and not the Crown Court. Figures showing the number of applications for a residence order and the number of orders made in the county courts and family proceedings courts in England for the year 2002 are provided in the table. No information is held centrally concerning those applications that were made ex-parte and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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Applications and orders made in the family proceedings courts in England, 2002 Family proceedings court Applications made Orders made Percentage orders granted Aldridge and Brownhills 11 8 74.8 Ashby De La Zouch 24 68 283.3 Barnsley 39 24 62.0 Berwick upon Tweed 3 3 100.0 Bexley 37 28 75.7 Blackpool 54 44 815 Bolton 29 26 89.7 Bristol 43 43 100.0 Burnley 40 32 80.0 Burnley and Pendle 40 24 60.0 Bury 37 45 121.6 Canterbury and St. Augustine 8 8 100.0 Carlisle 40 32 80.0 Central Buckinghamshire 8 10 125.0 Chichester 8 4 50.0 Chorley 12 5 41.7 Cirencester/Fairford and Tetbury 32 44 137.5 City of Salford 35 62 177.1 Claro 21 19 87.8 Coquetdale 2 1 50.0 Crawley 24 12 50.0 Derby and South Derbyshire 72 76 105.6 Doncaster 53 44 83.0 East Retford 272 288 105.9 Exeter and Wonford (East Devon) 36 28 77.8 Folkestone and Hythe 32 41 129.7 Furness and District 47 53 112.8 Gateshead 19 16 84.2 Gloucester 51 57 113.0 Godstone 16 4 25.0 Great Yarmouth 12 12 100.0 Grimsby and Cleethorpes 15 15 100.0 Hastings 22 16 72.7 High Peak 12 4 33.3 Inner London Family Proceedings Co. 448 263 58.6 Kingston-on-Hull 44 36 81.8 Langbaugh East 5 2 40.0 Leicester 57 85 149.7 Leigh 12 36 300.0 Lincoln District 12 10 83.3 Liverpool 85 44 51.8 Loughborough 20 0 0.0 Manchester 133 96 72.2 Mansfield 328 160 48.8 Market Bosworth 32 4 12.5 Melton and Belvoir 8 36 450.0 Mid Sussex 12 0 0.0 Milton Keynes 16 4 25.0 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 60 47 77.8 North and East Hertfordshire 1888/9/75/ 12 12 100.0 North and East Surrey 20 12 60.0 North Avon 12 13 108.3 North Bedfordshire 23 23 100.0 North East Suffolk 11 12 112.1 North Oxfordshire 8 20 250.0 North Somerset 30 23 76.7 North Tyneside 27 21 77.8 North West Surrey 2 6 300.0 Norwich 3 3 100.0 Nottinghamshire 198 196 99.0 Oldham 42 25 59.5 Ormskirk 21 16 76.2 Oxford 23 18 78.3 Plymouth 38 32 84.2 Rochdale Middleton and Heywood 60 74 123.3 Rotherham 18 21 116.7 Scunthorpe 33 16 48.0 Sedgemoor 24 16 66.7 Sheffield 48 53 110.4 Slough 8 4 50.0
Applications and orders made in the family proceedings courts in England, 2002 Family proceedings court Applications made Orders made Percentage orders granted South East Cornwall 72 36 50.0 South East Hampshire 31 9 29.0 South East Northumberland 52 22 42.3 South East Surrey 2 6 300.0 South Ribble 4 1 32.5 South Somerset 5 0 0.0 South West Surrey 1 0 0.0 Spilsby and Skegness 40 28 70.0 Stafford 124 124 100.0 Staincliffe 4 3 75.0 Stockport 40 34 85.0 Stoke-on-Trent 65 43 66.2 Sutton 14 11 78.6 Tameside 35 50 142.9 Teesside 98 119 121.4 Thanet 25 15 58.1 Trafford 19 7 36.8 Walsall 18 14 77.8 Warwick 100 36 36.0 West Somerset 30 24 80.0 Whitehaven 9 11 122.2 Wigan 41 11 25.9 Willesden 12 10 83.3 Wimbledon 9 8 88.9 Wirrall (Birkenhead) 10 6 60.0 Worthing and District 8 0 0.0 Wycombe and Beaconsfield 3 5 166.7 York 22 13 59.1 Note: The orders made do not necessarily relate to the applications made due to the period between application and order. The figures contain imputed data.