"Practical Ways to Crack Crime"

HC Deb 07 December 1989 vol 163 cc380-1W

20. Mr. Jack

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many copies of the Home Office booklet, "Practical Ways to Crack Crime", have now been distributed.

Mr. John Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many copies of the Home Office booklet, "Practical Ways to Crack Crime", have now been distributed.

Mr. John Patten

Two and a half million copies of the first two editions and nearly 300,000 of the recently published third edition of our handbook "Practical Ways to Crack Crime" have now been distributed in England and Wales. We have also produced a new, shorter version called the Family Guide, over one and a half million copies of which have been distributed.