HC Deb 07 August 1980 vol 990 cc251-2W
Miss Richardson

asked 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. Brittan

The 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:

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