§ Mr. AltonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has about incidents of domestic violence in each of the regions of England and Wales.
§ Mr. MacleanThe information available has been provided by Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary and is in the table; 1993 was the first year that HMIC collected information on incidents of domestic violence recorded by the police in England and Wales. The HMIC is in the process of collecting more reliable data. 641W
Domestic violence incidents recorded by the Police in England and Wales in 1993 Forces Year 1993 Avon and Somerset Not available Bedfordshire Not available Cambridgeshire 2,253 Cheshire 17,918 City of London — Cleveland 3,448 Cumbria 654 Derbyshire 7,606 Devon and Cornwall Not available Dorset 5,624 Durham 3,277 Dyfed-Powys 1,223 Essex 1,724 Gloucestershire 2,401 Greater Manchester 33,988 Gwent 135 Hampshire Not available Hertfordshire 3,367 Humberside 8,401 Kent 5,875 Lancashire 6,090 Leicestershire 4,075 Lincolnshire 373 Merseyside 8,850 Norfolk 881 North Wales 287 North Yorkshire 15,841 Northamptonshire 2,104 Northumbria 2,071 Nottinghamshire 1,990 South Wales 3,451 South Yorkshire 482 Staffordshire Not available Suffolk 1,396 Surrey 3,155 Sussex 1,157 Thames Valley 9,167 Warwickshire Not available West Mercia 916 West Midlands 12,151 West Yorkshire 11,315 Wiltshire 1,517 Provincial Total 185,163 Metropolitan Police 11,420 England and Wales Total 196,583