Antisocial Behaviour Orders
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 20 October 2009
Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders were issued to people (a) under and (b) over the age of 18 years in (i) England and (ii) North East Cambridgeshire in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
Alan Campbell (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Tynemouth, Labour)
holding answer
The latest available published data on the number of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) issued covers the period
The available information is shown in the following tables. The first table shows the number of orders issued to young people (defined as being aged 10 to 17 at the date of appearance in court) and the second the number of orders issued to adults (defined as being aged 18 or over at the date of appearance in court).
| Table 1: Number of antisocial behaviour orders issued to persons aged 10 to 17( 1) at the Cambridgeshire criminal justice system (CJS) area and at all courts in England as reported to the Home Office by the Court Service, January 2003( 2) to December 2007 | ||
| CJS area | ||
| Cambridgeshire | England | |
| 2003 | 10 | 598 |
| 2004 | 3 | 1,291 |
| 2005 | 14 | 1,493 |
| 2006 | 15 | 971 |
| 2007 | 4 | 869 |
| Total | 46 | 5,222 |
| (1) Previously issued data have been revised. (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 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. | ||
| Table 2: Number of antisocial behaviour orders issued to persons aged 18+( 1) at the Cambridgeshire criminal justice system (CJS) area and at all courts in England as reported to the Home Office by the Court Service, January 2003( 2) to December 2007 | ||
| Cambridgeshire | England | |
| 2003 | 5 | 679 |
| 2004 | 23 | 2,013 |
| 2005 | 34 | 2,344 |
| 2006 | 16 | 1,509 |
| 2007 | 16 | 1,250 |
| Total | 94 | 7,795 |
| (1) Previously issued data have been revised. Note: 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: OCJR Court Proceedings Database | ||