§ Mr. FlookTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the basic command units in the same administrative family as West Somerset Basic Command Unit.[119612]
§ Ms BlearsThe present administrative grouping containing West Somerset Basic Command Unit is contained in the table. This grouping will be used in the publication of Crime Statistics for February 2003 as it was for the January 2002 publication. These administrative groupings are currently being revised to reflect the small number of boundary changes that took effect in April 2003, and the updated lists will be published within the next few months.
Police force Basic command unit name Avon and Somerset Somerset East Somerset West Cambridgeshire Central Southern Derbyshire Buxton (B Division) Devon and Cornwall Devon and Cornwall area 1 Devon and Cornwall area 3 Devon and Cornwall area 4 Dorset Eastern Western Essex Braintree Gloucestershire Cotswold and Stroud Hampshire Andover Central Hampshire Kent Weald Lincolnshire East Lincolnshire South Lincolnshire Norfolk Norfolk Eastern area Norfolk Western area North Yorkshire North Yorks—Eastern North Yorks—Western Northamptonshire Western Suffolk Suffolk Western Sussex Weald Western Thames Valley Aylesbury Vale Northern Oxfordshire Southern Oxfordshire West Berkshire West Mercia Shrewsbury Wiltshire Chippenham Salisbury