Home Department written question – answered at on 26 January 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many football banning orders have been issued in each year since 1997, broken down by area in which the offender resides.
Football Banning Orders in their current form were introduced by the Football (Disorder) Act 2000. Detailed information on earlier versions is not available. However, Table 1 provides the total number of Football Banning Orders imposed each year since enactment of the 2000 Act. As at
Number of football banning orders imposed | |
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2000 | 182 |
2001 | 582 |
2002 | 709 |
2003 | 808 |
2004 | 1,238 |
2005 | 32 |
Police authority area | Individuals currently subject to a football banning order |
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Avon and Somerset constabulary | 22 |
Bedfordshire police | 12 |
Cambridgeshire constabulary | 40 |
Cheshire constabulary | 39 |
Cleveland constabulary | 64 |
Cumbria constabulary | 33 |
Derbyshire constabulary | 88 |
Devon and Cornwall constabulary | 39 |
Dorset police | 5 |
Durham constabulary | 11 |
Dyfed-Powys police | 0 |
Essex police | 36 |
Gloucestershire constabulary | 0 |
Greater Manchester police | 272 |
Gwent constabulary | 1 |
Hampshire constabulary | 136 |
Hertfordshire constabulary | 39 |
Humberside police | 71 |
Kent constabulary | 3 |
Lancashire constabulary | 91 |
Leicestershire constabulary | 45 |
Lincolnshire constabulary | 30 |
Merseyside police | 58 |
Metropolitan police | 304 |
Norfolk constabulary | 25 |
North Wales police | 69 |
North Yorkshire police | 22 |
Northamptonshire constabulary | 8 |
Northumbria police | 92 |
Nottinghamshire constabulary | 55 |
South Wales police | 265 |
South Yorkshire police | 161 |
Staffordshire police | 158 |
Suffolk constabulary | 12 |
Surrey police | 0 |
Sussex police | 9 |
Thames Valley police | 28 |
Warwickshire constabulary | 0 |
West Mercia constabulary | 26 |
West Midlands police | 251 |
West Yorkshire police | 131 |
Wiltshire constabulary | 20 |
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