§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drug addicts were notified to him in each police authority area in each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. MellorInformation for the United Kingdom, which is available only for the years 1975 to 1981, is given in the following table. Corresponding information for 1982 will become available later this year.
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Narcotic drug addicts notified to the Home Office by police force area and year*United Kingdom Number of persons Police force area Years 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 England Avon and Somerset 28 21 64 46 40 64 42 Bedfordshire 16 10 17 19 15 15 32 Cambridgeshire 21 21 19 20 17 12 36 Cheshire 12 9 10 15 17 24 31 London, City of — — — — — — — Cleveland 3 3 — — 2 1 3 Cumbria 2 2 3 2 3 — 5 Derbyshire 6 5 4 9 4 8 7 Devon and Cornwall 12 6 12 12 21 24 28 Dorset 20 28 54 32 32 21 27 Durham 10 7 8 1 9 7 5 Essex 12 13 16 25 33 45 59 Gloucestershire 4 8 11 24 20 24 20 Greater Manchester 31 32 26 29 33 39 54 Hampshire 52 34 42 35 43 47 33 Hertfordshire 32 23 30 45 47 60 67 Humberside 6 2 3 2 6 3 7 Kent 11 15 13 12 25 43 42 Lancashire 31 25 15 33 67 48 82 Leicestershire 17 16 26 21 25 21 28 Lincolnshire 4 5 1 8 4 7 6 Merseyside 43 37 33 35 22 38 67 Metropolitan Police District 746 843 907 1,196 1,371 1,231 1,688 Norfolk 8 9 10 8 15 20 18 Northamptonshire 22 10 28 28 14 24 28 Northumbria 15 9 15 13 6 11 20 North Yorkshire 7 5 6 2 1 2 5 Nottinghamshire 6 2 14 20 19 31 36 South Yorkshire 23 36 32 45 27 54 102 Staffordshire 1 2 10 2 9 12 23 Suffolk 9 2 5 7 7 4 11 Surrey 13 19 22 28 23 35 53 Sussex 60 66 93 114 90 120 114 Thames Valley 39 32 40 37 42 61 90 Warwickshire 1 3 3 6 3 4 4 West Mercia 6 9 7 4 8 6 8 West Midlands 20 21 12 27 40 41 81 West Yorkshire 19 14 18 13 22 21 25 Wiltshire 6 1 4 4 2 5 5 Wales Dyfed-Powys 5 11 11 11 7 19 10 Gwent 5 2 3 3 4 1 4 North Wales 4 2 3 — 1 — 8 South Wales 27 28 25 22 46 59 39 Scotland Central 2 2 2 1 4 6 17 Dumfries and Galloway 1 1 — 5 2 2 — Fife 2 — 1 — 4 2 7 Grampian 2 4 4 9 16 3 3 Lothian and Borders 23 39 27 39 83 87 93 Northern — — — 1 — — 1 Strathclyde 11 29 19 30 21 26 118 Tayside 1 2 3 — 5 — 10 Northern Ireland — — — 1 8 3 9 Total—United Kingdom 1,458 1,525 1,731 2,100 2,385 2,441 3,311 * Including notifications of addicts who were not previously known and renotifications of addicts known in earlier years.