§ Ms RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many racial incidents were recorded by each police force in England and Wales in 1993.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThis information is now collected on a financial year basis. The figures for 1993–94 are given: these have been collected by the same means as figures published for earlier periods, and they are comparable. I will be considering further the arrangements which are in place for collecting and publishing such figures in future in the light of the recent report by the Home Affairs Select Committee on racial attacks and harassment—HC 71–1.
Reported racial incidents April 1993–March 1994 Number Avon and Somerset 159 Bedfordshire 60 Cambridge 100 Cheshire 98 City of London 1 Cleveland 50 Cumbria 17 Derbyshire 221 Devon and Cornwall 14 Dorset 25 Durham 32 Dyfed-Powys 0 Essex 133 Gloucestershire 28 Greater Manchester 658 Gwent 21 Hampshire 212 Hertfordshire 117 Humberside 79 Kent 160 Lancashire 262 Leicestershire 315 Lincolnshire 4 Merseyside 155 Norfolk 33 North Wales 2 North Yorkshire 22 Northamptonshire 102 Northumbria 405 Nottinghamshire 264 South Wales 400 South Yorkshire 106 Staffordshire 117 Suffolk 73 Surrey 79 Sussex 214 Thames Valley 166 Warwickshire 87 West Mercia 100 West Midlands 487 West Yorkshire 244 Wiltshire 51 Provincial total 5,873 Metropolitan total 3,889 England and Wales total 9,762