| Heading: |
Homelessness: Convictions and Prosecutions |
| Question ID: |
1807789 |
| UIN: |
HL7896 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3605 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Best
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Best
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the number of individuals (1) prosecuted, and (2) convicted, under the Vagrancy Act 1824 for each police force area in England and Wales in each year from 2021 for which figures are available. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5364 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lord Timpson
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Timpson
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions and convictions under the Vagrancy Act 1824 at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |