§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many issues of arms there have been to each police force, and in total, in each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe readily available information is set out in the table.
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1982 11983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Cleveland 7 6 8 6 10 6 5 1 City of London 255 11 4 43 26 16 17 17 Cumbria 16 2 5 11 15 15 9 7 Derbyshire 14 3 8 5 6 5 10 10 Devon and Cornwall 12 24 28 21 25 21 22 32 Dorset 9 14 27 12 16 12 14 26 Durham 5 6 10 9 8 29 10 17 Essex 55 71 44 56 31 28 44 57 Gloucestershire 24 7 7 17 4 2 2 7 Greater Manchester 75 84 52 65 50 79 50 74 Hampshire 45 19 23 23 11 15 28 27 Hertfordshire 33 15 27 29 46 61 14 15 Humberside 30 27 56 23 18 25 10 26 Kent 150 42 37 40 43 27 31 41 Lancashire 34 30 35 28 21 9 19 2 Leicestershire 12 4 8 11 9 14 9 12 Lincolnshire 11 6 2 2 3 3 6 10 Merseyside 118 106 61 49 39 32 39 52 Metropolitan 6,035 2,230 1,838 1,642 1,702 1,332 1,320 1,363 Norfolk 23 12 13 12 12 13 13 14 Northamptonshire 35 3 6 10 5 3 5 8 Northumbria 23 26 15 16 29 30 47 110 North Yorkshire 18 19 14 9 15 21 12 21 Nottinghamshire 46 10 10 9 13 10 5 6 South Yorkshire 76 18 13 26 21 23 31 64 Staffordshire 23 5 5 11 17 11 28 20 Suffolk 15 11 17 17 25 32 32 27 Surrey 58 20 32 25 9 19 30 61 Sussex 80 53 51 46 51 18 46 68 Thames Valley 28 30 17 30 15 42 31 24 Warwickshire 11 9 8 6 1 3 4 0 West Mercia 33 15 12 4 4 6 5 9 West Midlands 59 24 17 25 27 41 26 66 West Yorkshire 302 113 78 58 53 84 99 132 Wiltshire 12 11 12 9 5 8 9 26 Dyfed Powys 4 4 3 5 1 10 7 14 Gwent 2 1 2 2 1 2 4 8 North Wales 26 11 10 8 9 19 27 10 South Wales 26 7 4 7 7 12 14 9 Total 7,952 3,180 2,667 2,488 2,453 2,185 2,227 2,583 1 From 1983 the figures record the number of operations in which firearms were issued; the figure for 1982 records the number of occasions on which firearms were issued.