§ Mr. PendryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of the adult population in England and Wales were arrested in 1987.
§ Mr. John PattenThis information is not available in the form requested. The latest available information relates to arrests of those aged 17 and over in England and Wales, excluding the Metropolitan police district, in 1987. There were 1.3 million such arrests among a population of the same age group of 33.5 million.