§ Lord Hanningfieldasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many incidents of gun crime were recorded in Greater London in each of the past 10 years, including the number of (a) woundings; and (b) deaths. [HL1490]
§ Baroness Scotland of AsthalThe available information relates to the London region (i.e. the Metropolitan and City of London police force areas)146WA and is given in the tables. Information on injuries in the London region is available only from 1997.
Table 1. Offences recorded by the police in which firearms were reported to have been used.
London Region: 1995 to 2003–04 Period Number of offences 19951 1,918 19961 1,742 19971 2,930 1997–98 1,951 1998–992 2,034 1999–2000 2,945 2000–01 3,036 2001–023 4,199 2002–034 4,201 2003–04 3,891 Table 2. Offences recorded by the police in which firearms were reported to have caused injury by type of injury.
London Region: 1997 to 2003–04 Period Fatal injury Serious injury Slight injury 19971 26 89 290 1997–98 24 83 294 1998–992 19 62 361 1999–2000 24 67 532 2000–01 28 101 603 200l–023 44 154 787 2002–034 35 176 771 2003–04 23 159 740 1 Excluding offences of "other criminal damage" of value £20 and under. 2 There was change in counting rule for recorded crime on 1 April 1998. 3 Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by some police forces implementing the principles of the national crime recording standard before 1 April 2002. 4 The national crime recording standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by this.