§ Mr. Tom Coxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes in which a firearm was used there were in the United Kingdom in 1985 and 1979.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe available information for England and Wales relates to notifiable offences recorded by the police in which firearms were reported to have been used and is published in table 3.1 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1985". The latest available figures for Scotland are for 1983 and were published in Scottish Home and Health Department "Statistical Bulletin", issue 4/1985.