Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981

(asked on 8th September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions of offences under the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981 there have been in each year between 2009-10 and 2013-14.


Answered by
Robert Buckland Portrait
Robert Buckland
This question was answered on 11th September 2014

The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) indicate the number of offences charged, in which a prosecution was commenced at a magistrates’ court, rather than the identifying the number of people prosecuted.

During each of the last five years the number of offences charged by way of the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981 is as follows:

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2012-2013

2013-2014

Indecent Displays (Control) Act

1981 {1(1) and 4}: Make / cause /

permit display of indecent matter

0

7

0

1

4

Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System

There is no indication of the number of individual defendants prosecuted for these offences or the final outcome of the prosecution proceeding or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at the time of finalisation. It is often the case that an individual defendant is charged with more than one offence.

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