§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list by category the number of violent crimes in the London Royal parks as a whole (a) before dark and (b) after dark for each of the last five years.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneI refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave him on 4 February. The same answer applies to this question.—[Vol. 17, c. 176.]
All crimes of violence in the Royal parks are investigated by the Metropolitan Police. In order to provide the statistics requested it would be necessary to have a search made of the crime books of the 18 Metropolitan Police stations which have dealings with the Royal parks; no central record is kept. This could be done only at disproportionate cost.