HC Deb 23 January 1989 vol 145 c390W
Mr. Harry Barnes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, pursuant to his answer of 19 December 1988 on football statistics,Official Report, columns 56 to 60, he will publish similar tables for the 1987–88 English Football League season showing the number of arrests of home and away supporters on each ground plus the numbers of each team's supporters who were arrested on away grounds.

Mr. Menzies Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department

(1) how many of the 6,147 arrests at Football League matches last season took place within football grounds;

(2) how many of the 6,147 people arrested at Football League matches during the last season were convicted as a result.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The information collated by the Association of Chief Police Officers on arrests at Football League matches in England and Wales does not distinguish between arrests made inside grounds and arrests directly connected with those matches made outside the grounds. Nor does the information detail the outcome of arrests and distinguish between home and away supporters.

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