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.

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.