§ Mr. Steelasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the numbers of people that have been killed by automatic weapons from 1979 to date.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe available information on homicides is published in table 4.3 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1986", (Cm. 233) a copy of which is in the Library. The information collected centrally does not distinguish automatic weapons from other types of firearms.