§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of those individuals charged with offences arising out of the current miners' dispute have been office holders of the National Union of Mineworkers; and with what offences they were charged.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThis information is not readily available.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give a breakdown by police force of the number of days of sick leave which serving police officers have been forced to take as a result of injuries sustained during the course of the miners' dispute.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe information requested is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give a breakdown by degree of seriousness and by police force of injuries sustained by serving police officers during the course of the current miners' dispute which have so far been brought to his attention.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe information available centrally relates to the police force area in which injuries were sustained, rather than to the police forces from which the officers came, and does not distinguish between serious and less serious injuries. During the period 13 March to 13 December inclusive, the number of injuries was as follows:
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Police force area Number of injuries Cleveland 2 Derbyshire 243 Durham 43 Dyfed-Powys 4 Essex 7 Greater Manchester 13
Police force area Number of injuries Gwent 3 Humberside 2 Kent 64 Lancashire 1 Merseyside 4 Metropolitan 4 Northumbria 37 North Wales 1 North Yorkshire 14 Nottinghamshire 130 South Wales 40 South Yorkshire 335 Staffordshire 18 Sussex 2 Thames Valley 2 Warwickshire 2 West Yorkshire 290 TOTAL 1,261
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give a breakdown by type of offence for which charges have been brought following incidents which have taken place in the course of the current miners' dispute, stating in each category (a) the total number of charges brought, (b) the number of individuals charged, (c) the number of cases tried, (d) the number of convictions made and (e) the number of custodial sentences which resulted.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe information available centrally relates to the period from 13 March to 11 December inclusive, for which I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to a question from the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) on 14 December, at column 638. The total number of immediate custodial sentences imposed during that period, including sentences to youth custody or detention in a detention centre, imposed during that period was 118.
§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the total additional cost to date of policing the miners' dispute in south Wales which has been borne by local authority expenditure; and what is the extent to which this additional expenditure, by local authority, will attract overspending penalty.
§ Mr. Giles ShawI understand that up to 31 October the additional costs to the South Wales police authority resulting from the policing of the miners' dispute in the police area were some £370,000, 50 per cent. of which will be met by police grant from the Home Office. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales has announced that additional costs resulting from the policing of the dispute will be disregarded for grant holdback purposes.