Mr. Edward Taylorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department by what percentage the provisional figures for crimes involving the use of firearms in 1972 exceed the comparable figure for 1967.
§ Mr. CarlisleThe provisional number of offences recorded as known to the police in England and Wales in 1972 in which firearms were fired, used as a blunt instrument to cause injury or damage, or used as a threat, was 161 per cent. higher than the number recorded in 1967.