Licensing Laws
(asked on 20th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions under legislation prohibiting alcohol sales to intoxicated persons there have been in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 25th November 2014
The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts for offences related to the sale of alcohol to an intoxicated person in England and Wales, 2009 to 2013, can be viewed in the table below:
| Defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts for offences related to selling alcohol to an intoxicated person (1), England and Wales, 2009 to 2013 (2)(3) | ||||
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| 8 | 3 | 12 | 18 | 10
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| (1) An offence under S141 of the Licensing Act 2003 | ||||
| (2) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. | ||||
| (3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. | ||||
| Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice. | ||||