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|Selected offences recorded by Birmingham CDRP and rate per 1,000 population, 2006-07 to 2008-09|
|2006 - 07||2007 - 08||2008 - 09|
|Offence code||Offence description||Number of offences||Rate per 1,000 population||Number of offences||Rate per 1,000 population||Number of offences||Rate per 1,000 population|
|(1) Data for offence codes 4.4, 4.6 and 4.8 are not available separately prior to 2008-09.|
Mr. Godsiff: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded (a) in total and (b) per capita in Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency in the last three years. 
Mr. Alan Campbell: Recorded crime data are not available for the Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency. The available information relates to the Birmingham Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership area and is given in the following table.
|Offences recorded by the police in Birmingham and rate per 1,000 population-2006-07 to 2008-09|
|Number of offences||Rate per 1,000 population|
Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested is not available in the form requested. Data for total recorded crime for the Birmingham Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) area are only available from 2000-01 when 153,705 offences were recorded. There were 95,889 offences recorded in the Birmingham CDRP in 2008-09. Data for these two years are not directly comparable because of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002.
Mr. Kemp: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the percentage change in (a) overall recorded crime, (b) recorded violent crime, (c) burglary and (d) vehicle thefts in Houghton and Washington East constituency has been between 2000 and the most recent date for which figures are available. 
Mr. Alan Campbell: Information is not available centrally for the Houghton and Washington, East constituency. The available information relates to the Sunderland Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership area. However, because of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002, data for 2000-01 and 2008-09 are not directly comparable. Percentage changes between 2002-03 and 2008-09 for the requested offences have been given in the following table:
|Percentage change in selected offences recorded by the police in Sunderland, 2002-03 to 2008-09|
|Percentage change between 2002-03 and 2008-09|
|(1) Includes theft of or from a vehicle.|
Mr. Godsiff: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offenders received a police caution for grievous bodily harm in Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency in each year since 2007. 
Mr. Alan Campbell: The number of offenders cautioned for offences relating to 'grievous bodily harm' in the West Midlands police force area, 2007 (latest available data from the Ministry of Justice) can be viewed in the following table.
|Number of offenders cautioned for offences relating to 'grievous bodily harm', West Midlands police force area, 2007( 1, 2, 3)|
|(1) The cautions statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been cautioned for two or more offences at the same time, the principal offence is the more serious offence.|
(2) From 1 June 2000, the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and warnings. These figures have been included in the totals.
(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.
Justice Statistics Analytical Services: Ministry of Justice.
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent by his Department and its agencies on conferences they organised which were subsequently cancelled in each of the last three years; and what the title was of each such conference. 
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the latest estimate is of the level of failure demand in each call centre run by (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies. 
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of recorded crimes of each type were detected using DNA profiles from the national DNA database in the latest period for which figures are available. 
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 11 January 2010]: The number and proportion of recorded crimes of each type detected in which a DNA match was available in 2008-09 is shown in Table 1. The figures held do not include crimes detected as a result of one-off speculative searches of the NDNAD or from comparing DNA profiles in a forensic laboratory. One-off speculative searches and DNA profile comparisons are used mainly in the investigation of serious crimes such as murder and rape. Therefore the figures provided in Table 1 will under-represent the overall contribution of DNA matches to the detection of serious crimes such as murder and rape.
It is important to note that detections are achieved through integrated criminal investigation, not through DNA alone. The source of the figures provided is the forensic performance data, which are collected from police forces by the Home Office.
the number and types of crimes detected for which a DNA match was available.
additional detections, where an offender admits further offences following a detection for which a DNA match was available.
the total of these two types of detections (labelled 'DNA-related') as a proportion of recorded crime and as a proportion of sanction detections (the sanction detection rate in 2008-09 for total recorded crime was 28 per cent.).
The table shows that 17 per cent. of all detected domestic burglaries, 20 per cent. of all detected other burglaries (burglaries other than a dwelling e.g. commercial premises, garden sheds, etc.) and 10 per cent. of all detected thefts of vehicle were 'DNA-related'.
It should also be noted that most recorded crimes do not have any forensic opportunities (for example, minor assault, drugs offences, theft, fraud etc.). In 2008-09, only a small proportion of recorded crimes had a crime scene examination (17 per cent.); and only 39,795 crimes yielded DNA crime scene samples of sufficient quantity and quality for profiling and loading to the NDNAD.
|DNA-related detections 2008-09|
|Police forensic data-crime categories||Detections of crimes in which a DNA match was available ('DNA detections')||Additional detections arising from the DNA match||Total DNA-related detections ('DNA detections' and additional detections)||Recorded crime 2008-09||Total force detections 2008-09||Total DNA-related detections as proportion of recorded crime (percentage)||Total DNA-related detections as proportion of total force detections (percentage)|
|(1) The forensic data "homicide" crime category covers the following recorded crime categories:|
Murder, Manslaughter, Infanticide-648
Intentional destruction of viable unborn child-8
Threat or conspiracy to murder-9,559
Causing death by aggravated vehicle taking etc.-31
Causing death by dangerous, careless or inconsiderate driving-427
Total 'Homicide' crimes in 2008-09-11,248
1. A 'DNA detection' means that the crime was cleared up and a DNA match was available.
2. 'Additional detections arising from the DNA match' occur when, for example, a suspect, on being presented with DNA evidence linking him to one offence, confesses to further offences. They arise from a crime with a DNA match; and are therefore detections where a DNA match played a part in solving the crime.
3. Total 'DNA-related detections' means 'DNA detections' plus 'additional detections arising from the DNA match'.
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