HC Deb 12 July 1993 vol 228 cc335-6W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many thefts of shotguns there were in 1991 in each police force area(a) from domestic premises and (b) from all premises.

Mr. Maclean

The following table shows, for each police force in England and Wales in 1991, the number of notifiable offences of burglary and theft in which shotguns were reported to have been stolen from domestic and all premises:

Notifiable offences of burglary and theft in which shot guns were stolen
Police force area Domestic premises All premises
Avon and Somerset 15 20
Bedfordshire 4 8
Cambridgeshire 9 10
Cheshire 7 13
Cleveland 3 4
Cumbria 7 8
Derbyshire 5 6
Devon and Cornwall 27 35
Dorset 2 2
Durham 21 24
Essex 14 17
Gloucestershire 4 6
Greater Manchester 4 5
Hampshire 16 20
Hertfordshire 2 2
Humberside 7 7
Kent 30 46
Lancashire 18 27
Leicestershire 7 13
Lincolnshire 6 9
London, City of
Merseyside 6 7
Metropolitan Police District 22 28
Norfolk 17 25
Northamptonshire 10 11
Northumbria 15 21
North Yorkshire 12 18
Nottinghamshire 1 4
South Yorkshire 20 26
Staffordshire
Suffolk 11 11
Surrey 17 20
Sussex 13 16
Thames Valley 21 35
Warwickshire 6 10
West Mercia 8 11
West Midlands 8 11
West Yorkshire 7 11
Wiltshire 3 5
Dyfed-Powys 3 6
Gwent
North Wales 6 10
South Wales 2 6
England and Wales 416 574