§ Mr. LewisTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the total number of recorded crimes involving the use of firearms in each of the past 10 years in(a) the Greater Manchester police authority area, and (b) England and Wales.
§ Mr. John PattenStatistics of the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in which firearms were reported to have been used are published by police force area in table S3.1(A) of "Criminal Statistics England and Wales, Supplementary tables". The most recent issue, for 1989, gives figures for each year between 1979 and 1989. A copy of this publication is held in the Library.