§ 69. Mr. Chris Smithasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was for each year since 1977, the total number of offences known to the police in which firearms were used.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe readily available information relates to notifiable offences recorded by the police in 297W which firearms were reported to have been used and is published in table 3.1 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1985", published this week.