§ Mr. Sandysasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will issue provisional statistics of offences known to the police in England and Wales, committed in 1968, in the categories of all indictable offences involving firearms, indictable offences in which firearms were carried, used or presented, robberies in which firearms were carried, used or presented, and cases in which firearms were fired at policemen.
§ Mr. Elystan MorganThe number of indictable offences known to the police in England and Wales during 1968 in which firearms were involved was 2,500; in 958 of these offences a firearm was carried, used or presented. The number of robberies and assaults with intent to rob in which a firearm was carried, used or presented was 386. There were 12 offences in which firearms were fired at policemen.