HC Deb 26 March 1985 vol 76 cc129-30W
Mr. Soley

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will publish in the Official Report information on the mining dispute showing the number of arrests in each police area from 13 March 1984 to 5 March 1985.

Mr. Giles Shaw

The number of arrests connected with the miners' dispute in police force areas in England and Wales was as follows:

Police force area Number of arrests
Cleveland 58
Cumbria 25
Derbyshire 1,192
Durham 487
Dyfed-Powys 16
Essex 212
Greater Manchester 274
Gwent 236
Hampshire 11
Humberside 121
Kent 311
Lancashire 26
Leicestershire 54
Merseyside 195
Metropolitan 255
Northumbria 637
North Wales 31
North Yorkshire 163
Nottinghamshire 2,417
South Wales 509
South Yorkshire 1,533
Staffordshire 417
Sussex 5
Thames Valley 3
Warwickshire 197
West Yorkshire 423
Total 9,808

Mr. Meadowcroft

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the effect of policing the mining dispute on crime figures in non-mining areas.

Mr. Mellor

No satisfactory estimate can be made of the effect which the redeployment of police officers may have had on the crime figures in non-mining areas. Any such effects would be masked by the normal variations in the figures for each kind of offence within each police force area.