HC Deb 19 May 1989 vol 153 cc319-20W
Mr. Vaz

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total value of goods seized under the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986.

Mr. John Patten

The best available information relates to confiscation orders. For the value of such orders to date, I refer the hon. Member to the reply my right hon. Friend gave to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Lewes (Mr. Rathbone) on 11 May at column986.

Mr. Butler

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information his Department has with regard to the proportion of burglaries committed by drug addicts(a) in the Wirral, (b) in Merseyside and (c) nationally.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The information requested is not available nationally. However, a Home Office research study "opioid use and burglary", published in 1986 estimated that in 1983, 1 per cent. of adult males convicted of burglary in a dwelling at Liverpool magistrates court, and 15 per cent. convicted at Wirral magistrates court were drug addicts notified to the Home Office. Other research has suggested that in 1985 at least half of the adult males convicted of burglary in the Wirral may have been drug misusers.