§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list by year and by police authority for the last 10 years, the number of cases of baby abduction that have been investigated.
§ Mr. John PattenThe available information relates to children aged under 16 and is published annually, and most recently under offence classification 13 in table S3.1 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary Tables, 1988 Vol. 3", a copy of which is available in the Library. More precise information on the age of victims of these offences could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.