HC Deb 30 June 1992 vol 210 cc515-6W
Mrs. Currie

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in rank order the police authorities of England and Wales, showing the number of vacant police flats and houses in each authority for the most recent date.

Mr. Charles Wardle

The most recent figures available, which are those for 31 March 1991, are set out in the following table:

Vacant police houses and flats as at 31 March 1991
Police Authority Vacant Houses and Flats
City of London 0
Cleveland 2
Bedfordshire 3
Surrey 6
Merseyside 7
Leicestershire 8
South Yorkshire 8
West Yorkshire 9

Police Authority Vacant Houses and Flats
Warwickshire 11
Norfolk 11
Sussex 12
Northamptonshire 13
Nottinghamshire 14
West Midlands 15
Cambridgeshire 17
Hertfordshire 17
Devon and Cornwall 20
Humberside 21
Durham 22
Wiltshire 25
Dorset 25
Suffolk 25
Cheshire 27
Gwent 29
Northumbria 32
Staffordshire 32
Dyfed-Powys 34
Lincolnshire 34
Gloucestershire 35
Avon and Somerset 38
Kent 40
Hampshire 40
North Yorkshire 42
Essex 47
South Wales 50
West Mercia 56
Thames Valley 56
Lancashire 61
Cumbria 65
Greater Manchester 70
North Wales 70
Derbyshire 80
Metropolitan Police 385
Total 1,614