§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to keep figures for murders in which race has been a factor.
§ Mr. MacleanThere are no plans to record information on murder in this way.
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to his answer to the hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Ms Ruddock) on 23 March,Official Report, column 529, if the figure for racially motivated incidents in 1992 is now available.
§ Mr. MacleanThe only information currently available relates to the number of reported racial incidents which are shown in the following table. These 1992 figures were provided in the reply given to a question from the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard) on 26 April, columns266–67, except that the Kent figure for 1992 has now been corrected.
Reported racial incidents Forces 1992 Avon and Somerset 98 Bedfordshire 57 Cambridgeshire 110 Cheshire 29 City of London 0 Cleveland 73 Cumbria 13 Derbyshire 60 Devon and Cornwall 7 Dorset 10 Durham 40 Dyfed Powys 0 Essex 80 Gloucestershire 33 Greater Manchester 401 Gwent 31 Hampshire 139 Hertfordshire 106 Humberside 68 Kent 56 Lancashire 231 Leicestershire 338 Lincolnshire 5 Merseyside 134 Norfolk 30 North Wales 4 North Yorkshire 22 Northamptonshire 120 Northumbria 349 Nottinghamshire 222 South Wales 311 South Yorkshire 151 Staffordshire 95 Suffolk 55 Surrey 61 Sussex 98 Thames Valley 195 Warwickshire 35 West Mercia 19 West Midlands 379 West Yorkshire 218 Wiltshire 24 Provincial total 4,507 Metropolitan police 3,227 England and Wales total 7,734