HC Deb 05 March 1993 vol 220 cc355-6W
Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many assaults with a knife or similar weapon resulted in either a serious injury or death in each police force area since 1979.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

[holding answer 3 March 1993]: The available information is provided in the tables. Figures for patients dealt with as outpatients are not available.

Number of persons recorded by the police in Scotland who were killed with a knife or other sharp instrument by police force area, 1979–1991
Police Force Number killed
Northern 19
Grampian 21
Tayside 22

Central Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Lothian and Borders Northern Strathclyde Tayside
1979 — — — N/a N/a — N/a N/a
1980 — — — N/a N/a — N/a N/a
1981 — — — N/a N/a — N/a N/a
1982 — — — 1 — 2 N/a N/a
1983 — — — 1 — — N/a N/a
1984 — — — 1 — — N/a N/a
1985 — — — — 2 — N/a N/a
1986 — — — — 4 — N/a N/a
1987 — — — 1 1 — N/a N/a
1988 — — — 3 1 — N/a N/a
1989 — — — — 3 — N/a N/a
1990 — — — — 2 — N/a N/a
1991 — — — 2 — — N/a N/a
1992 — 1 — — 2 — N/a N/a
1993 — — — — — — N/a N/a
N/a—Details not available.

Police Force Number killed
Fife 16
Lothian and Borders 65
Central 9
Strathclyde 327
Dumfries and Galloway 8
Total 487

In-patient discharges from Scottish hospitals with a diagnosis of injury (excluding death) resulting from an assault by a cutting or piercing instrument for each health board of treatment, 1979–1991
Health board of treatment Number
Argyll and Clyde 933
Ayrshire and Annan 395
Borders 37
Dumfries and Galloway 58
Fife 158
Forth Valley 210
Grampian 466
Greater Glasgow 4,072
Highland 123
Lanarkshire 639
Lothian 1,098
Orkney 4
Shetland 9
Tayside 314
Western Isles 2
Scotland 8,518

Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many police officers in each police force area have been wounded or murdered by stabbing with a knife or similar weapon in each year since 1979.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

[holding answer 3 March 1993]: Since 1979 one police officer in Scotland has been murdered by stabbing, in Strathclyde police area in 1982. Information recorded by forces on the number of police officers wounded by stabbing is set out in the following table.