Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cautions were issued in Wales as a result of (a) violence against a person or persons, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) theft offences, (e) criminal damage and arson, (f) drug offences, (g) possession of a weapon or weapons, (h) public order offences, (i) miscellaneous crimes against society, (j) fraud offences, (k) summary offences involving motoring and (l) summary offences not involving motoring in each year between 2013 and 2017.
Information on cautions is available in the published out of court disposals data tool: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733984/out-of-court-disposals-tool-2017-update.xlsx
To limit the data to Wales, filter the data using Police Force Area and select Dyfed-Powys, Gwent,
North Wales and South Wales.
Open the Cautions pivot table and remove the variables from the rows box and drag the ‘Offence group’ variable from the filters box into the rows box.
It is not possible to identify whether an offender received a simple or conditional caution as this data is not centrally held by the Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings Database.
Summary motoring offences are mostly dealt with a Fixed Penalty Notice rather than a caution and as such are not included in the data.