HC Deb 10 February 1983 vol 36 cc419-21W
Mr. McNamara

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether he will indicate the number of persons arrested or detained in the various police areas in each year since the inception of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, indicating how many were subsequently charged wih offences under that Act or of offences which, if they had been resident in Northern Ireland, would have been scheduled offences under the Emergency Provisions Act;

(2) if he will publish in the Official Report the number of detentions in the various police authorities in England

Persons detained under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts 1974 and 1976 by police force area and whether made subject to an exclusion order or charged with a criminal offence
England and Wales 29 November 1974–31 December 1982 Number of persons
Police force area Total detained Exclusion order made Charged with offences
Prevention of Terrorism Other
England
Metropolitan Police District 1,202 67 25 68
Avon and Somerset 51 2 4
Bedfordshire 60 1 5
Cambridgeshire 1 1
Cheshire 10 1
City of London 26
Cleveland 18 1
Cumbria 7
Derbyshire 4 1 1
Devon and Cornwall 42 1 4
Dorset 16 1
Durham 1
Essex 69 6
Gloucestershire 12
Greater Manchester 90 7 2 5
Hampshire 195 10 10
Hertfordshire 1 1
Humberside 13
Kent 121 8 3 4
Lancashire 94 3 7
Leicestershire 10 1
Lincolnshire 2
Merseyside 1.301 51 13 52
Norfolk
Northamptonshire 24 1 3
Northumbria 7 2 1
North Yorkshire 1 1
Nottinghamshire 3
South Yorkshire 4
Staffordshire
Suffolk 10 1
Surrey 95 5 9
Sussex 82 1
Thames Valley 17
Warwickshire
West Mercia 6 1
West Midlands 137 4 1 9
West Yorkshire 170 4 2 10
Wiltshire 6 1
British Transport Police 1
TOTAL ENGLAND 3,909 171 50 201
Wales
Dyfed Powys 88 4 3 3
Gwent 4 1
North Wales 71 5

and Wales under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for each year since its inception, indicating how many persons so detained were subsequently charged with offences under the Act, how many were convicted, how many were served with exclusion orders and how many were charged with offences which in Northern Ireland would have been scheduled offences under the Emergency Provisions Act.

Mr. Whitelaw

[pursuant to his reply, 2 February 1983, c. 106]: The information readily available for the whole of Great Britain is published in tables 1, 3, 4 and 5 of Home Office Statistical Bulletin No. 1/83: figures of total detentions in each police force area are given in table 2 of this series of bulletins. Provision of all the details requested by police force area would involve disproportionate cost, but some information, readily available, is given in the following table.

Police force area Total detained Exclusion order made Charged with offences
Prevention of Terrorism Other
South Wales 80 1 2
TOTAL WALES 243 5 3 11
TOTAL ENGLAND AND WALES 4,152 176 53 212

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