§ Miss Richardsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide a breakdown by police force area of the 8,374 occasions on which firearms were issued to police officers in 1979.
§ Mr. BrittanThe total number of occasions in 1979 on which firearms were issued to police officers for particular incidents involving criminals or others known or believed to be armed was 8,394, not 8,374 as stated in my reply to a question by the hon. Member on 28 July.—[Vol. 989, c. 150.] I regret this error. The breakdown requested is as follows:
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Force Number of occasions Avon and Somerset 22 Bedfordshire 32 Cambridgeshire 7 Cheshire 31 Cleveland 14 City of London 182 Cumbria 10 Derbyshire 8 Devon and Cornwall 114 Dorset 19 Durham 7 Essex 51 Gloucestershire 21 Greater Manchester 75 Hampshire 96 Hertfordshire 62 Humberside 15 refugees resettled in local housing authority areas most nearly corresponding to the named parliamentary constituencies were as follows:
Kent 69 Lancashire 23 Leicestershire 21 Lincolnshire 2 Merseyside 74 Metropolitan 6,647 Norfolk 17 Northamptonshire 20 Northumbria 17 North Yorkshire 13 Nottinghamshire 40 South Yorkshire 20 Staffordshire 21 Suffolk 23 Surrey 18 Sussex 41 Thames Valley 29 Warwickshire 19 West Mercia 39 West Midlands 271 West Yorkshire 77 Wiltshire 34 Dyfed Powys 4 Gwent 2 North Wales 15 South Wales 72