Home Department written question – answered at on 9 March 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in Lancashire were imprisoned for animal abuse in each of the last five years.
The number of persons reported to the Home Office court proceedings database as having been sentenced to immediate custody in Lancashire for offences of cruelty to animals in the last five years were one in 2001, two in 2004 and 10 in 2005. Statistics for 2006 will be available in the autumn.
Although care is taken in collating and analysing the returns used to compile these figures, the data are of necessity subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. Consequently, although figures are shown to the last digit in order to provide a comprehensive record of the information collected, they are not necessarily accurate to the last digit shown.
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