HC Deb 02 June 1992 vol 208 cc411-4W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many notifiable offences in which shotguns were used took place in each year(a) from 1985 and (b) in 1992 so far in each police force area.

Mr. Jack

[holding answer 22 May 1992]: The information requested is set out in the table. Information for 1991 and 1992 is not yet available.

available only for homicide offences. The number of homicide offences in which the relationship between the suspect and victim was domestic and where a shotgun was used in given in the table, each police force in England and Wales for each year between 1985 and 1990.

Year
Police force area 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
Derbyshire 0 1 1 0 0 0
Devon and Cornwall 0 8 0 1 0 0
Dorset 0 0 0 1 1 1
Durham 1 0 1 0 0 1
Essex 0 0 1 0 0 0
Gloucestershire 0 I 0 0 0 0
Greater Manchester 1 0 0 0 0 0
Hampshire 2 0 0 0 0 0
Hertfordshire 1 0 0 0 0 0
Humberside 0 0 0 0 2 0
Kent 0 1 2 1 1 0
Lancashire 0 0 0 1 0 1
Leicestershire 0 0 0 1 0 0
Lincolnshire 0 0 1 0 0 0
London, City of 0 0 0 0 0 0
Merseyside 0 0 0 0 0 0
Metropolitan 1 0 2 1 0 2
Norfolk 4 1 0 0 0 0
Northamptonshire 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northumbria 1 0 0 0 0 0
North Yorkshire 1 0 1 0 0 1
Nottinghamshire 2 0 0 0 0 0
South Yorkshire 0 0 1 0 0 1
Staffordshire 0 0 0 0 2 0
Suffolk 1 1 0 1 0 2
Surrey 0 1 0 1 0 0
Sussex 0 0 1 1 1 0
Thames Valley 0 1 0 0 1 0
Warwickshire 0 0 1 0 0 0
West Mercia 0 1 0 1 1 1
West Midlands 0 3 0 0 0 1
West Yorkshire 0 2 0 0 0 1
Wiltshire 0 0 0 0 1 0
Dyfed-Powys 0 0 0 0 1 2
Gwent 0 0 1 0 0 1
North Wales 0 0 0 1 0 0
South Wales 0 0 1 1 0 0
England and Wales 16 24 15 12 11 17

Information for 1991 is not yet available.

Notes:

1. Offences currently recorded as homicide as at 1 September 1991.

2. The term "Domestic" includes the following relationships between victim and suspect: son or daughter; parent; spouse, cohabitant or former spouse or cohabitant; other family; lover or former lover including spouse's lover or lover's spouse or other associate.