§ Lord Harris of Greenwichasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many indictable offences involving the use of air weapons were committed in 1984.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Glenarthur)The available information relates to notifiable offences recorded by the police in which firearms were reported to have been used, published annually inCriminal Statistics, England and Wales (Table 3.2 of the latest issue, Cmnd. 9621 gives figures for the period 1974 to 1984). In 1984, 5,540 such offences were recorded where the principal weapon used was an air weapon.