§ Mr. MichaelTo 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. JackThe 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.
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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