§ Mr. Nellistasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for reports from the chief constables concerned as to how many arrests made since 14 March in connection with the miners' dispute were by (a) officers from the police force area concerned, and (b) officers from outside the police force area concerned; and if he will provide a breakdown of the nature of the charges in each case for (a) and (b).
§ Mr. HurdThe information requested is not available centrally and could be obtained and collated only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. Nellistasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the chief constable of Warwickshire (a) on the occupations of those arrested in connection with the miners' dispute, up to and including 14 June in the same format as the reply, Official Report, 12 June, column 402 and (b) of the numbers arrested against whom no subsequent charge was made from 6 June to the latest available date.
§ Mr. HurdThe information currently available from the chief constable about the occupations of people arrested in his area in connection with the miners' dispute relates to the period between 14 March and 12 June inclusive. That information is that of 87 people arrested during the period, 84 were miners and three were unemployed. As to information about the numbers of people who were arrested and not charged, I refer the hon. Member to another reply I gave him today and to my reply of 7 June, at columns 215–16.
§ Mr. Nellistasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for reports from the chief constables concerned, and then publish in the Official Report, the number of arrests made in connection with the miners' dispute where no charge has subsequently been brought (a) by police force area and (b) nationally by occupation for the period 14 March to 14 June, inclusive.
§ Mr. HurdInformation available centrally relates to the numbers of arrests not followed by a charge, by force area, in England and Wales in the period 14 March to 12 June inclusive. Information about the occupations of the people arrested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Following is the information available.
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Police force area Number of people arrested and not charged Derbyshire 17 Durham 7
Police force area Number of people arrested and not charged Essex 48 Greater Manchester 3 Humberside 3 Kent 1 Lancashire 13 Leicestershire 6 Merseyside 2 Metropolitan 19 North Wales 1 Nottinghamshire 121 South Yorkshire 5 Staffordshire 63 Warwickshire 17 West Yorkshire 4 Total 330
§ Mr. Nellistasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the occupations of those arrested in connection with the miners' dispute from 6 June to 14 June, inclusive, in the same format as his answer, Official Report, 12 June, column 402.
§ Mr. HurdThe information which is currently available centrally for England and Wales relates to the period from 6 June to 12 June inclusive, and is as follows:
Occupation of person arrested Number of arrests Miner 135 Manual worker 6 Non-manual worker 1 Unemployed 1 Not known 116 Total 259
§ Mr. Nellistasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the chief constable of Warwickshire for the periods (a) 14 March to 5 June, and (b) 6 June to the latest available date, to show what were the total number of officers on duty in connection with the the miners' dispute on dates when an arrest or arrests were made (a) from the Warwickshire police force, and (b) from other forces, by police force area; and how many officers have made one, two, three or more arrests (i) from Warwickshire and (ii) from other forces.
§ Mr. HurdThe chief constable has reported to me that it could prejudice effective policing in his area to publish information about the number of officers deployed there whilst operations related to the dispute are continuing. He tells me that the information requested about the numbers of arrests made by individual officers is not available.
§ Mr. Nellistasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the chief constable of Warwickshire as to how many arrests made in connection with miners' dispute from 6 June to the latest available date were by (a) officers from the Warwickshire police area and (b) officers from other forces; and if he will provide a breakdown of the nature of the charges in each case for (a) and (b).
§ Mr. HurdThe chief constable of Warwickshire tells me that of the nine arrests made in Warwickshire between 6 June and 14 June inclusive in relation to events arising from the dispute, five were made by officers from his124W force and four by officers from other forces. The following table provide information about the charges subsequently brought:
Arrests by Warwickshire officers Charge brought Number Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 (conduct conducive to a breach of the peace) 1 Criminal damage 1 Assault 1 Not proceeded with 2 Total 5 Arrests by other officers Obstruction of the highway 4