Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many allegations of rape were reported to the police by (a) women and (b) men in each area of (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2005; how many such allegations resulted in prosecutions; and how many such prosecutions were successful.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
The Home Office does not hold data on allegations of rape reported to the police. The Home Office holds data on the number of rapes recorded by the police. The information is published on a financial year basis and is given in Table A for the requested areas.
The Ministry of Justice holds information on the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of rape. These figures are on a calendar year basis and data are not directly comparable with the figures recorded by the police. This is because cases tried at court may have occurred in a different time period to those recorded by the police and could relate to crimes recorded in previous years. Furthermore, Ministry of Justice figures are based on the number of defendants proceeded against, while police data are based upon the number of victims.
Information on the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of rape can be found in Table B.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions her Department has used police cells to hold immigrants in each police force area in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2004.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The information requested is not routinely collected and could be provided only by examining individual case records, which would result in disproportionate cost.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms were confiscated in each police force area in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk during the most recent firearms amnesty in November 2014.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
The data from November’s firearms surrender is being collated and analysed by the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS). In the listed police force areas, the following numbers of firearms were surrendered: (a) Suffolk:
381, (b) Bedfordshire: 61, (c) Cambridgeshire: 123, (d) Essex: 126, (e) Hertfordshire: 223, (f) Norfolk: 577.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many pornographic images of children were removed from the internet as a result of investigations by (a) police forces and (b) her Department's agencies in the areas of (i) Suffolk, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) Cambridgeshire, (iv) Essex, (v) Hertfordshire, (vi) Norfolk and (vii) England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Mike Penning
This information is not held centrally. The Internet Watch Foundation runs the UK reporting centre for indecent images of children, and works with its internet industry partners to take down websites hosting such images in the UK. It is also part of a global network of agencies to whom it refers cases involving websites hosted overseas, where the majority of images are found.
The Internet Watch Foundation will use the hash set database that forms part of the Child Abuse Image Database to proactively search for and remove indecent images of children.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of policing each airport in the East of England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Karen Bradley
This information is not held centrally.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many replica firearms were confiscated in each police force area in (a) Suffolk, (b) Norfolk, (c) Bedfordshire, (d) Cambridgeshire, (e) Essex, (f) Hertfordshire, (g) England and (h) Wales in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
The information requested is not held centrally by the Home Office. This information is held by the National Police Ballistics Intelligence Service.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the crime detection rate was in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each year since 2010.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
There was a significant change from the former detections framework to the new outcomes framework in April 2013. The new outcomes framework includes a broader range of "outcomes" for crimes dealt with by the police. This provides greater transparency on how crimes are resolved when compared with the former detections framework which only covered a subset of the new outcomes and, therefore, of the ways crimes are "resolved".
Information on the new outcomes framework and data for England and Wales were published by the Home Office in its "Crime Outcomes in England and Wales 2013/14" bulletin, alongside the number of outcomes in each police force area.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2013-to-2014
While statistics published from 2013/14 onward focus on the new outcomes framework rather than detections, it is technically possible to calculate the former detection rates. Figures for Suffolk Police and England and Wales are shown in the table provided. It is not possible to provide data for Bury St Edmunds constituency as outcomes data are collected at police force area level.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the monetary value was of assets (a) seized and (b) frozen under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in each police force area in the East of England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The amount recovered by each police force under the Proceeds of Crime Act and the previous asset recovery legislation is provided in Table A. There is no provision for police forces to freeze assets under the Proceeds of Crime Act; however we are able to provide force-by-force breakdowns of the amount of cash seized and value of property subjected to a restraint order during a criminal investigation or proceeding. A proportion of this may be deemed by the courts to be subject to forfeiture or confiscation. Table B provides figures for the amounts seized or restrained.
More assets have been recovered since 2010 than ever before, although prosecutors face greater difficulties in obtaining restraint orders following the impact of the Court of Appeal decision in Windsor & Ors v Crown Prosecution Service [2011] EWCA Crim 143. The Government has taken steps to address this by bringing forward provisions in the Serious Crime Bill, which is currently before Parliament, to lower the legal test for restraint in order to make it easier to obtain restraint orders earlier in investigations.We are working with operational partners to ensure that the use of restraint orders is considered at the outset of all appropriate investigations.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has paid to each local authority in the East of England in asylum seeker support in each year since 1997.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Payments to local authorities in the East of England in respect of asylum seeker support for the financial years between 2002-03 and 2013-14 are shown in the following table. Data for previous years are not available at the required level of analysis and it would incur disproportionate cost to provide the information for the years before 2002-03.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers left the police service in each police force area in (a) Suffolk, (b) England and (c) Wales (i) within two to five years, (ii) within five to 10 years and (iii) after more than 10 years of joining the service in each year since 2004.
Answered by Mike Penning
The tables provided contains data on the number of police officer leavers (headcount) and police officer wastage rates, by the requested length of service, for each police force area in England and Wales between 2003/04 to 2010/11.
These figures ceased to be collected from 2011/12 onwards.