§ Mr. DykesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fatalities arose from gunshot wounds recorded in the years 1990, 1991 and 1992 in the United Kingdom; and what analysis has been made in his Department of how many such incidents involved assailants suffering from the ingestion of drugs.
§ Mr. MacleanThe available information, for England and Wales, which relates to offences currently recorded as homicide where the method of killing was recorded as shooting were as follows:
649W No information is available centrally as to whether the assailants were suffering from the ingestion of drugs.
Numbers 1990 58 1991 50 1992 52 Figures for Scotland are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and figures for Northern Ireland are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.