HC Deb 27 April 1978 vol 948 cc634-5W
Mr. Brotherton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of the total number of detected burglaries and robberies in 1975, 1976 and 1978, how many burglars and robbers were found carrying firearms.

Mr. John

Information in the form requested is not readily available. The information available on offences in which firearms were reported to have been used is published in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—Chapter 6 of the issue for 1975 and Chapter 9 of the issue for 1976. Later figures are not yet available.