§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide a table showing, for each police force area in England and Wales, the number of notifiable drug offences by category in each year since 1985 and the total for England and Wales.
§ Mr. JackThe only notifiable offence which is drugs related is that of "trafficking in controlled drugs". This information for 1985–90 is published annually in table 3.1 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary tables"; copies of which are available in the Library. Information for 1991 is contained in the following table:
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Notifiable offences of trafficking in controlled drugs—1991 Police force area Number of offences Avon and Somerset 262 Bedfordshire 49 Cambridgeshire 79 Cheshire 315 Cleveland 86 Cumbria 133
Police force area Number of offences Derbyshire 129 Devon and Cornwall 226 Dorset 221 Durham 85 Essex 238 Gloucestershire 123 Greater Manchester 868 Hampshire 391 Hertfordshire 179 Humberside 179 Kent 551 Lancashire 384 Leicestershire 65 Lincolnshire 141 City of London 20 Merseyside 506 Metropolitan Police District 2,096 Norfolk 217 Northamptonshire 93 Northumbria 143 North Yorkshire 100 Nottinghamshire 112 South Yorkshire 225 Staffordshire 117 Suffolk 247 Surrey 103 Sussex 546 Thames Valley 299 Warwickshire 78 West Mercia 160 West Midlands 300 West Yorkshire 608 Wiltshire 91 Dyfed-Powys 103 Gwent 117 North Wales 126 South Wales 268 England and Wales 11,379