Alcohol-related Crime
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 7 November 2006
Malcolm Moss (Shadow Minister (Culture, Media & Sport), Culture, Media & Sport; North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions there have been for alcohol-related crimes in each quarter of the last five years.
Gerry Sutcliffe (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Bradford South, Labour)
The information requested, covering the years 2000-04, are provided in the first table.
Data for 2005 will be available in late November 2006.
Additionally, the penalty notice for disorder scheme was brought into effect in all police forces in England and Wales in 2004. Under the scheme the police are able to issue persons committing specified minor offences with a fixed penalty notice of either £50 or £80. No admission of guilt is required and payment of the penalty discharges all liability for the offence. Data on the number of PNDS issued for these offences in 2004, 2005 and 2006 (provisional January to June), broken down by quarter, are provided in the second table. A list of those alcohol-related offences for which a PND may be issued is also included in the second table.
| Number of defendants found guilty at all courts for alcohol related offences, by offence class and quarter, England and Wales 2000-04( 1,2) | ||||
| Drunkenness, simple | Drunkenness, with aggravation | Offence by licensed person, etc.( 3) | Other offences against liquor laws( 4) | |
| 2000 | ||||
| Quarter 1 | 734 | 6,476 | 61 | 50 |
| Quarter 2 | 755 | 6,162 | 63 | 31 |
| Quarter 3 | 819 | 6,002 | 34 | 44 |
| Quarter 4 | 661 | 5,573 | 51 | 28 |
| Total | 2,969 | 24,213 | 209 | 153 |
| 2001 | ||||
| Quarter 1 | 684 | 6,167 | 54 | 34 |
| Quarter 2 | 666 | 5,763 | 43 | 28 |
| Quarter 3 | 696 | 5,963 | 41 | 26 |
| Quarter 4 | 695 | 5,612 | 35 | 31 |
| Total | 2,741 | 23,505 | 173 | 119 |
| 2002 | ||||
| Quarter 1 | 646 | 6,311 | 42 | 44 |
| Quarter 2 | 644 | 5,991 | 55 | 18 |
| Quarter 3 | 644 | 6,194 | 44 | 29 |
| Quarter 4 | 576 | 5,892 | 79 | 47 |
| Total | 2,510 | 24,388 | 220 | 138 |
| 2003 | ||||
| Quarter 1 | 559 | 6,439 | 98 | 40 |
| Quarter 2 | 596 | 6,177 | 142 | 41 |
| Quarter 3 | 591 | 6,420 | 134 | 23 |
| Quarter 4 | 553 | 6,362 | 129 | 45 |
| Total | 2,299 | 25,398 | 503 | 149 |
| 2004 | ||||
| Quarter 1 | 577 | 6,335 | 149 | 48 |
| Quarter 2 | 488 | 5,147 | 178 | 53 |
| Quarter 3 | 499 | 4,246 | 206 | 37 |
| Quarter 4 | 384 | 3,457 | 150 | 25 |
| Total | 1,948 | 19,185 | 683 | 163 |
| (1) These data are provided on the principal offence basis. (2) 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 police forces and courts. 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. (3) Includes offences of licence holders permitting violent conduct on premises, sale of alcohol out of hours etc. (4) Includes offences of individuals buying, selling alcohol unlawfully etc. Source: RDS—Office for Criminal Justice Reform | ||||
| Number of penalty notices for disorder issued for alcohol-related offences( 1) In England and Wales to offenders aged 16 and over, by quarter, 2004-05 and January to June 2006 provisional data( 2) | ||||
| Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4 | |
| 2004 | 2,373 | 6,898 | 9,743 | 10,694 |
| 2005 | 9,329 | 9,525 | 9,969 | 12,694 |
| 2006(3) | 10,825 | 12,913 | ? | ? |
| (1) See offence list for offences which make up PND alcohol offences. (2) 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 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. (3) January to June provisional data. | ||||
PND alcohol offences:
Being guilty while Drunk of disorderly behaviour
Sale of alcohol to a drunken person(1)
Supply of alcohol to a person under 18(1)
Sale of alcohol to person under 18(1)
Purchase alcohol for person under 18(1)
Purchase alcohol for person under 18 for consumption on the premises
Delivery of alcohol to person under 18 or allowing such delivery(1)
Being found drunk in a highway or other public place
Consumption of alcohol in public place
Consumption of alcohol by under 18 on relevant premises(1)
Allowing consumption of alcohol by under 18 on relevant premises(1)
Buying or Attempting to buy alcohol for person under 18(1)
(1) Offences came into force on