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 police officer recruits in (a) Suffolk and (b) England and Wales began residential training in each year since 2010.
Answered by Mike Penning
This information is not held centrally by the Home Office. Decisions about the numbers of police officer recruits who undertake residential training are a matter for the local police force.
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 roadside checks for (a) speed, (b) use of seat belts and child restraints, (c) vehicle safety and roadworthiness and (d) driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs were carried out in (i) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (ii) Suffolk and (iii) England and Wales by each police force in each of the last three years.
Answered by Mike Penning
Available information relates to the number of roadside breath tests conducted in Suffolk and England and Wales, these data are provided in the table. Data for 2013 is scheduled for publication in Spring 2015.
Data on the number of roadside checks for speed, use of seatbelts and driving under the influence of drugs, as well as breakdowns for Bury St Edmunds constituency are not reported to the Home Office.
| Number of roadside breath tests conducted, 2010-2012 | ||||
| Area | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | |
| Suffolk | 10,501 | 11,832 | 16,083 | |
| England and Wales | 736,846 | 685,992 | 682,558 | |
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 people had their vehicle stopped and searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in each of the last five years; and how many of those were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of a (i) notifiable and (ii) terrorism-related offence in each police force area.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Available information relates to the number of persons in vehicles and the number of unattended vehicles searched under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in 2009/10 and 2010/11. Data are given in the table. There have been no reported searches of persons or vehicles since the replacement of section 44 with section 47a in February 2011.
Data on persons prosecuted as a direct result of searches under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act are 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, what the cost in each budgetary category of national police recruitment campaigns was in each police force area in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Home Office does not collect this information. Decisions about the size and composition of the police workforce, including when and how to recruit new officers, are a matter for individual Chief Constables, working with the relevant Local Policing Body.
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 on-the-spot fines have been issued in each police area to date.
Answered by Mike Penning
Data on fixed penalty notices issued for motoring offences broken down by police force area are provided in table 1. Data are provided from 1997 to 2012 (latest available), data for earlier years can be found in the archive link below.
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110218135832/http:/rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/police-powers-archive.html
Data on penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) from 2005 (the first full year where police issued them) to 2013 (latest available), provided by the Ministry of Justice, are provided in table 2.
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 requests for information held on the National DNA Database were received by her Department from other countries in each of the last five years.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The first category relates to searches carried out against the National DNA
Database (NDNAD) of DNA profiles from outstanding serious crimes or for the
identification of an unknown deceased person believed to be a UK national.
The below figures are for requested searches undertaken on the basis of a
direct request from the National Crime Agency (NCA) formerly Serious Organised
Crime Agency (SOCA), with the report as to the outcome of each profile
search being issued directly to the United Kingdom National Central Bureau
for Interpol (UK NCB).
| Year | Number of searched profile responses provided to NCA/SOCA[1][2][3] |
| 2009/10* | 377[4] |
| 2010/11 | 548 |
| 2011/12 | 469 |
| 2012/13 | 443 |
| 2013/14 | 409 |
| *Data are not available for the period Oct 2009 – Jan 2010. | |
The second category includes requests for the DNA profile held for a subject on
the NDNAD, where fingerprints have been provided to the country that the
individual currently resides in. Again this is information provided to NCA/
SOCA.
| Year | Number of requests for subject profiles release to NCA/SOCA123 |
| 2009/10 | 138 |
| 2010/11 | 85 |
| 2011/12 | 19 |
| 2012/13 | 14 |
| 2013/14 | 3 |
| [1] The data have been extracted from logs produced by NDNAD (validated as the only source of this information) by the application of the specified criteria (requests directly received from NCA/SOCA). The data were extracted by the manual filtering of Excel Spreadsheets. | |
| [2] The UK NCB is not currently able to provide data on the number of requests received from other countries so these data relate solely to information supplied by the National DNA Database Delivery Unit (NDU). | |
| [3] The data were extracted on 17th June. | |
[4] These figures have been verified on a 1:1 comparison basis. The third category relates to database management information. This provides Requestors are directed to the most recent published statistics on the Home | |
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 drink-driving offences were recorded in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years; and how many successful prosecutions for such offences there have been.
Answered by Norman Baker
Drink driving is a summary offence, and not a notifiable offence. The Home Office only collects data on notifiable offences.
The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates' courts and found guilty at all courts for offences relating to drink driving, in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013 can be viewed in Table 1. The same data for Suffolk can be viewed in Table 2. This data is held by the Ministry of Justice.
Data is not available below Police Force Area level, and so data for Bury St Edmunds cannot be provided.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of working time police officers in each police force spent on frontline policing duties in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
Answered by Damian Green
The Home Office does not hold this information centrally.
The Home Office does however collect police officer functions data which is
used by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary to calculate the number of
operational frontline police officers in each police force area. These figures
(and information on visible police
officers) are published from 2010 onwards as part of the ‘Valuing the Police'
inspection programme, which can be found at:
http://www.hmic.gov.uk/data/valuing-the-police-data/. These figures relate to
each officers predominant function over the year, rather than the proportion of
their working time.