Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-03-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged under 18 have been (a) charged with and (b) convicted of (i) indecent exposure, (ii) public drunkenness, (iii) drug possession and (iv) hate crime in each year since 2010.

Caroline Dinenage

The number of juveniles proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of offences of exposure and simple public drunkenness, in England and Wales, from 2010 to 2014 can be viewed in the table.

The number of juveniles proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of offences of drunkenness with aggravation in a public place, drug possession and hate crime offences, can be viewed in the CJS Outcomes by Offence data tool in the latest annual Criminal Justice Statistics publication, which is available at the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014

Crimes that may have been motivated by hate but are not defined hate crimes are not specifically included in this data.

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