§ Mrs. GillanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offenders placed on the home detention curfew scheme between January 1999 and 31 January 2004(a)have been (i) cautioned and (ii) convicted and(b)are awaiting prosecution, broken down by(A)sex and(B)police authority. [159277]
§ Paul Goggins[holding answer 5 March 2004]Between the commencement of the home detention curfew scheme in January 1999 and 31 January 2004, 87,250 offenders were placed on the scheme. During that period, the Home Office has been notified of a total of 1,126 offenders who have been either cautioned, convicted or who are awaiting prosecution for an offence committed whilst they were subject to the Home Detention Curfew scheme. Our records do not provide a breakdown of how many of these cases resulted in a caution or conviction or are still awaiting trial. To provide such information would incur a disproportionate cost.
Of those offenders, 115 were female and 1,011 were male. The table gives the number of offenders for each police authority.. The table gives the number of offenders for each police authority.
Number Avon and Somerset 19 Bedfordshire 7 Cambridgeshire 8 Cheshire 18 City of London I Cleveland 20 Cumbria 6 Derbyshire 34 Devon and Cornwall 15 Dorset II Durham 11 Dyfed Powys 4 Essex 27 Gloucestershire 3 Greater Manchester 61 Gwent 12 Hampshire 24 Hertfordshire 18 Humberside 12 Kent 12 Lancashire 49 Leicestershire 28 Lincolnshire 13 Merseyside 42 Metropolitan 119 Norfolk 21 North Wales 6 North Yorkshire 16 Northamptonshire 1.9 Northumbria 53 Nottinghamshire 25 South Wales 23 South Yorkshire 46 Staffordshire 31 Suffolk 1 Surrey 10 Sussex 12 Thames Valley 26 Warwickshire 8 West Mercia 19 West Midlands 163 West Yorkshire 66 Wiltshire 7