§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions resulted, in each year since 1980, in cases concerning the installation and maintenance of gas appliances.
§ Mr. MellorThe information available to me, which may be incomplete, relates to proceedings under the Gas Acts 1965 and 1972 and is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary Tables" (Volume 1, table S1.1(a)(iii) in the 1984 issue). In the years 1980 to 1984 there were respectively 46, 50, 38, 33 and 28 such prosecutions.