§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the reported number of racially motivated attacks by white people on non-white people within the Greater London area in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. MacleanFigures are not collected centrally on the ethnic origin of perpetrators of racial attacks in relation to the ethnic origin of their victims.
The number of white offenders in cases where there has been an arrest and the number of non-white victims of racial attacks recorded by the Metropolitan police service in the last three years are set out in the table. It cannot be assumed that white people were the offenders in all attacks involving non-white victims.
1991 1992 1993 White offender 90 106 88 Non-white victim 424 430 495 Attacks are classified as incidents of violence against the person.
Information on the ethnic origin of offenders was not collected before 1991.
Table: Offenders born in 1953: Estimated1 percentage of the population convicted2 of six or more offences, at selected ages, and the percentage of the total number of convictions2 of those born in 1953 attributable to these offenders England and Wales Percentages Offenders with six or more convictions2 Under 17 Under 21 Age under 26 Under 31 Under 36 MALES Percentage of male population born in 1953 1 3 5 6 6 Percentage of convictions of those born in 1953 30 47 56 60 62