HC Deb 13 January 1986 vol 89 cc459-60W
Mr. Tony Banks

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been held in custody under the provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act in Newham, in 1984 and in 1985.

Mr. Mellor

The information requested is not held centrally. The readily available information relates to the Metropolitan police district as a whole and is of those detained under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts 1976 and 1984. Sixty-three persons were so detained in 1984 and 34 in the first nine months of 1985. To provide information about individual police districts would involve disproportionate cost.