Criminal Justice Statistics (England and Wales) – penalty notices

07 Jan
2020

Towards the end of last year, the Ministry of Justice published its Criminal Justice Statistics for England and Wales, part of which show the number of penalty notices issued for certain offences.

The relevant overview tables (which can be found here - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2019) show a pattern of the last 10 years of significant declines in penalty notices issued for numerous offences. Those of perhaps most interest to the licensed trade are shown in the table below.

Two of the most remarkable declines relate to (of those flagged) the two offences with the most penalty notices issued in 2009 i.e. ‘Theft (retail under £100)’ and ‘Sale of alcohol to a person under 18’ as these have seen a decline of around 95% and 90% respectfully.

 

12 months ending June

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Higher tier offences (£90)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theft (retail under £100)

49,445

 43,135

 37,257

 31,704

 25,537

 17,429

 13,387

 9,218

 6,426

 3,567

 2,278

Sale of alcohol to drunken person

75

 88

 63

 91

 82

 61

 47

 36

 25

 23

 9

Supply of alcohol to a person under 18

104

 78

 53

 40

 48

 23

 15

 10

 4

 1

 6

Sale of alcohol to a person under 18

2,934

 2,463

 1,866

 1,469

 1,219

 950

 676

 451

 532

 301

 281

Purchasing alcohol for a person under 18

437

 409

 275

 213

 128

 88

 57

 39

 28

 23

 21

Purchasing alcohol for a  person under 18 for consumption on the premises

47

 38

 26

 32

 6

 12

 2

 -

 -

 3

 -

Delivery of alcohol to a person under 18 or allowing such delivery

224

 150

 111

 73

 59

 14

 15

 9

 2

 3

 -

Lower tier offences (£60)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consumption of alcohol by a person under 18 on relevant premises

36

 14

 19

 17

 8

 1

 -

 -

 -

 -

 -

Allowing consumption of alcohol by a person under 18 on relevant premises

6

 -

 4

 1

 -

 2

 -

 -

 1

 1

 -

Buying or attempting to buy alcohol by a person under 18

87

 58

 33

 20

 15

 4

 2

 -

 -

 -

 -

 

Law correct at the date of publication.
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