Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) prosecutions for firework offences and (b) firework-related attacks on emergency workers in the last five years.

Court data held on prosecutions summarises into specific offence categories. There is not a combined group of fireworks offences, but there are some individual detailed offences that relate specifically to fireworks for which data is available. For example, ‘Possessing fireworks etc. in, or when entering, a designated sports ground’ and ‘Throwing or firing any fireworks in or into a street’. Numbers of prosecutions and convictions for these offences are published here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/738814/HO-Code-Tool-2017.xlsx

It is not possible to identify how many prosecutions involved firework-related attacks on emergency workers in the last five years within Ministry of Justice centrally held information. Detailed information on whether a firework-related attack on emergency workers was involved in the commission of an offence may be held on court record but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.