HC Deb 10 November 1992 vol 213 cc693-4W
Mr. Michael

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide a table showing for each police area in England and Wales for each of the last three years the number of seizures of controlled drugs and the specific number in each of the following categories(a) heroin, (b) cocaine, (c) crack, (d) MDMA, (e) amphetamines and (f) cannabis.

Mr. Jack

The information requested with regard to those drugs, with the exception of "crack", is contained in table A1.3 of the Home Office statistical bulletins "Statistics of the misuse of drugs—seizures and offenders dealt with, United Kingdom, 1989, 1990, and 1991—area tables"—copies of which are in the Library. Information regarding MDMA is available only from 1990 onwards.

The table shows the number of seizures of "crack" by police force area in England and Wales in 1990 and 1991.

Seizures of "crack" by police force area, 1990 and 1991
England and Wales
Police force area 1990 1991
England
Avon and Somerset 1 11
Bedfordshire 1
Cambridgeshire 1
Cheshire
Cleveland
Cumbria
Derbyshire 11 1
Devon and Cornwall
Dorset
Durham
Essex
Gloucestershire
Greater Manchester 5 6
Hampshire 1
Hertfordshire
Humberside
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire 5
Lincolnshire
Merseyside 2 7
City of London 2
Metropolitan Police 275 516
Norfolk
Northamptonshire 1
Northumbria
North Yorkshire
Nottinghamshire 4 1
South Yorkshire 1 5
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey 1
Sussex 1 1
Thames Valley
Warwickshire
West Mercia 1
West Midlands 2 10
West Yorkshire 9 10
Wiltshire

Police force area 1990 1991
England—other 1
All English police forces 315 578
Wales
Dyfed and Powys
Gwent
North Wales
South Wales 3
All Welsh police forces 3
Total—England and Wales 315 581