Home Department written question – answered at on 24 November 2008.
Dominic Grieve
Shadow Secretary of State (Home Office), Shadow Attorney General
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) arrests and (b) convictions there were for criminal activity connected to (i) eco-terrorism and (ii) environmental activism in each year since 2001.
Jacqui Smith
Home Secretary, The Secretary of State for the Home Department
The information requested is not collected centrally.
Activities relating to "Eco-terrorism" and "environmental activism" are not covered by specific legislation, as such ecological and environmental activists involved in consequential criminal behaviour are likely to be arrested or charged with an offence appropriate to the circumstances (such as criminal damage, common assault etc).
The arrests collection held by the Home Office covers arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, broken down at a main offence group level, covering categories such as violence against the person, burglary, robbery and drug offences. Information on the individual circumstances of arrests is not reported to the Home Office.
The particulars surrounding prosecutions, other than the offence and outcome, are not collected centrally.
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