§ Mr. AllanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 26 January 1998,Official Report, columns 38–40, if he will list the number of racial incidents in 1996–97, by police force per head of population. [29489]
§ Mr. MichaelThe number of racial incidents in 1996–97, by police force, per thousand population1 is given in the table.
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Forces Racial incidents per thousand population Avon and Somerset 0.21 Bedfordshire 0.14 Cambridgeshire 0.2 Cheshire 0.09 City of London 0.04 Cleveland 0.12 Cumbria 0.08 Derbyshire 0.22 Devon and Cornwall 0.05 Dorset 0.1 Durham 0.04 Dyfed-Powys 0.04 Essex 0.08 Gloucestershire 0.06 Greater Manchester 0.23 Gwent 0.11 Hampshire 0.1 Hertfordshire 0.34 Humberside 0.06 Kent 0.16 Lancashire 0.24 Leicestershire 0.32 Lincolnshire 0.01 Merseyside 0.11 Metropolitan Police 0.75 Norfolk 0.07 North Wales 0.01 North Yorkshire 0.06 Northamptonshire 0.33 Northumbria 0.34 Nottinghamshire 0.32 South Wales 0.29 South Yorkshire 0.13 Staffordshire 0.21 Suffolk 0.11 Surrey 0.07 Sussex 0.18 Thames Valley 0.11
Forces Racial incidents per thousand population Warwickshire 0.13 West Mercia 0.06 West Midlands 0.27 West Yorkshire 0.3 Wiltshire 0.06 Provincial total 0.17 England and Wales total 0.25 1 The information was originally requested per head of population; however, the number of racial incidents relative to the population is too small to enable meaningful data to be presented on that basis.