§ Ms. GordonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were arrested by the police in England and Wales in 1986, 1988, and 1989.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe available information relates to arrests for all types of offence, but excludes the Metropolitan police disrict. There were 1,207,000 such arrests in 1986, 1,337,000 in 1988 and 1,464,000 in 1989.