§ Mr. WrayTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many assaults with knives there were in Scotland in the last five years. [3384]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonInformation on the total number of assaults with knives in that period is not available. The combined number of recorded victims of homicide and in-patient discharges from Scottish hospitals as a result of assaults with a knife or pointed article in the five years from and including 1991 was 6,664. The table gives a breakdown of this figure.