HC Deb 20 July 1984 vol 64 cc346-8W
Mr. Kilroy-Silk

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drug addicts were notified to him in each police authority area in 1982 and 1983.

Mr. Mellor

The numbers of new and former narcotic drug addicts notified to the Home Office in 1982 in each police force area were published in table 15 of "Statistics of the Misuse of Drugs, United Kingdom, Supplementary Tables, 1982", a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House. Corresponding provisional figures for 1983 are given in the table.

Narcotic drug addicts notified to the Home Office during 1983—United Kingdom
Number of persons*
Police Force New addicts Former addicts
ENGLAND
Metropolitan Police District (including City of London) 1,813 880
South East Region
Essex 55 28
Hertfordshire 30 27
Kent 43 12
Surrey 27 22
Thames Valley 73 52
Bedfordshire 20 18
Hampshire 53 28
Sussex 115 76
Total for South East Region 416 263
South West Region
Avon and Somerset 73 41
Devon and Cornwall 27 6
Dorset 17 6
Gloucestershire 16 12
Wiltshire 7 7
Total for South West Region 140 72
Eastern Region
Cambridgeshire 31 13
Derbyshire 12 5
Leicestershire 22 14
Lincolnshire 5 3
Norfolk 43 16
Northamptonshire 19 15
Nottinghamshire 15 9
Suffolk 20 4
Total for Eastern Region 167 79
Midlands Region
Staffordshire 27 3
Warwickshire 22 4
West Mercia 19 3
West Midlands 64 27
Total for Midlands Region 132 37
North East Region
Cleveland 7 —
Durham 6 1
Humberside 9 7
Northumbria 10 3
North Yorkshire 31 1
South Yorkshire 59 24
West Yorkshire 29 8
Total for North East Region 151 44
North West Region
Cheshire 85 19
Cumbria 18 1
Greater Manchester 204 28
Lancashire 127 44
Merseyside 378 29
Total for North West Region 812 121
Total for England 3,631 1,496
WALES
Dyfed-Powys 10 7
Gwent 14 5
North Wales 19 3
South Wales 47 25

Police Force New addicts Former addicts
Total for Wales 90 40
SCOTLAND
Central 17 6
Dumfries and Galloway 4 2
Fife 3 —
Grampian 7 —>
Lothian and Borders 116 47
Northern 2 —>
Strathclyde 231 76
Tayside 83 11
Total for Scotland 463 142
NORTHERN IRELAND 2 —
Total for United Kingdom 4,186 1,678
* provisional