HC Deb 17 September 2004 vol 424 cc1808-9W
Sandra Gidley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many names are on the Protection of Children Act list; and how many names have been added in each month since its inception. [187110]

Margaret Hodge

As of 22 September 2004, there are a total of 1,072 individuals confirmed on the Protection of Children Act List. Under the Protection of Children Act 1999 an individual can be provisionally included on the list until sufficient information has been gathered which enables a final decision. A breakdown of the number of individuals added to the List, following their period of provisional inclusion, in each of the last 12 months is shown in the following table. This information was not routinely collected before July 2003.

Month Number of cases
July 2003 8
August 2003 5
September 2003 0
October 2003 0
November 2003 5
December 2003 4
January 2004 5
February 2004 24
March 2004 9
April 2004 0

Month Number of cases
May 2004 8
June 2004 15
July 2004 17
Aug 2004 6
Sept 2004 2