Shaun Woodward
Labour, St Helens South and Whiston
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) fixed penalties were issued and (b) prosecutions were brought relating to the misuse of fireworks in (i) St Helens South and Whiston constituency, (ii) Merseyside and (iii) England in each of the last five years.
Crispin Blunt
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) (Prisons and Probation)
Data on the number of penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) issued in the Merseyside police force area and England for offences related to the misuse of fireworks and defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts for throwing fireworks, in each year between 2006 and 2010 (latest currently available), can be viewed in the table. These data are not available at constituency level.
Court proceedings data for 2011 are planned for publication in the spring of 2012.
| Defendants given penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) for offences related to fireworks and defendants (1) proceeded against at magistrates courts for throwing fireworks (2) , in the Merseyside police force area and England, in each year between 2006 - 10 | |||||
| Area/offence | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Merseyside | |||||
| PNDs issued: | |||||
| Breach of fireworks curfew(3) | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Possession of category 4 firework(3) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Possession by a person under 18 of adult firework(3) | 10 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| Throwing fireworks | 27 | 20 | 19 | 28 | 26 |
| Proceedings at magistrates courts: | |||||
| Throwing fireworks | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| England | |||||
| PNDs issued: | |||||
| Breach of fireworks curfew(3) | 51 | 37 | 19 | 13 | 23 |
| Possession of category 4 firework(3) | 25 | 22 | 23 | 56 | 22 |
| Possession by a person under 18 of adult firework(3) | 73 | 101 | 63 | 58 | 60 |
| Throwing fireworks | 639 | 607 | 500 | 317 | 330 |
| Proceedings at magistrates courts: | |||||
| Throwing fireworks | 32 | 28 | 28 | 18 | 25 |
| (1 )The figures given in the table on court proceedings relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (2) Explosives Act 1875, section 80: Throwing, casting or firing any fireworks in or into any highway, street, public place etc. (3) Fireworks Regulations 2004 under section 11 of the Fireworks Act 2003. 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: Justice Statistics Analytical Services within the Ministry of Justice. | |||||
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