§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were the number of reported criminal cases covering the Metropolitan police area for the year 1992 in which a knife or a gun was used during the furtherance of a criminal act.
§ Mr. MacleanThe number of offences in which a knife was used are not collected centrally.
The latest available figures for notifiable offences recorded by the Metropolitan police in which a firearm was reported to have been used, for 1991, were published in "Criminal statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary tables 1991", volume 3, table S3.1(A), a copy of which is in the Library.