§ 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 1982 and 1983.
§ Mr. MellorThe numbers of new and former narcotic drug addicts notified to the Home Office in 1982 in each police force area were published in table 15 of "Statistics of the Misuse of Drugs, United Kingdom, Supplementary Tables, 1982", a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House. Corresponding provisional figures for 1983 are given in the table.
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Narcotic drug addicts notified to the Home Office during 1983—United Kingdom Number of persons* Police Force New addicts Former addicts ENGLAND Metropolitan Police District (including City of London) 1,813 880 South East Region Essex 55 28 Hertfordshire 30 27 Kent 43 12 Surrey 27 22 Thames Valley 73 52 Bedfordshire 20 18 Hampshire 53 28 Sussex 115 76 Total for South East Region 416 263 South West Region Avon and Somerset 73 41 Devon and Cornwall 27 6 Dorset 17 6 Gloucestershire 16 12 Wiltshire 7 7 Total for South West Region 140 72 Eastern Region Cambridgeshire 31 13 Derbyshire 12 5 Leicestershire 22 14 Lincolnshire 5 3 Norfolk 43 16 Northamptonshire 19 15 Nottinghamshire 15 9 Suffolk 20 4 Total for Eastern Region 167 79 Midlands Region Staffordshire 27 3 Warwickshire 22 4 West Mercia 19 3 West Midlands 64 27 Total for Midlands Region 132 37 North East Region Cleveland 7 — Durham 6 1 Humberside 9 7 Northumbria 10 3 North Yorkshire 31 1 South Yorkshire 59 24 West Yorkshire 29 8 Total for North East Region 151 44 North West Region Cheshire 85 19 Cumbria 18 1 Greater Manchester 204 28 Lancashire 127 44 Merseyside 378 29 Total for North West Region 812 121 Total for England 3,631 1,496 WALES Dyfed-Powys 10 7 Gwent 14 5 North Wales 19 3 South Wales 47 25
Police Force New addicts Former addicts Total for Wales 90 40 SCOTLAND Central 17 6 Dumfries and Galloway 4 2 Fife 3 — Grampian 7 —> Lothian and Borders 116 47 Northern 2 —> Strathclyde 231 76 Tayside 83 11 Total for Scotland 463 142 NORTHERN IRELAND 2 — Total for United Kingdom 4,186 1,678 * provisional