§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 6 July,Official Report, columns 349–50 if he will give details of each of the incidents involving a reactivated firearm. [34238]
§ Mr. MacleanI am now aware of 20 incidents since the beginning of 1993. I understand that two were murders, seven others resulted in a non-fatal injury and four involved shots being fired, apparently without causing injury, in the course of crime. In the remaining692W seven incidents, there was no injury or evidence that they were associated with any other crime. Twelve of the incidents are reported as having taken place in the Greater Manchester police force area, two each in Mersyside, West Yorkshire and the West Midlands and one each in Lancashire and the Metropolitan police district.
§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many homicides involving(a) shotguns and (b) other firearms have taken place in each police force area in each of the last five years; and how many of the victims in each case were women; [34157]
(2) how many thefts of (a) shotguns and (b) other firearms took place in each of the last five years, (i) from domestic premises and (ii) from other premises in each police force area. [34158]
§ Mr. MacleanThe information requested is not immediately available and I will write to the hon. Member.
§ Mr. Goodson-WickesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will lay before Parliament the sixth annual report of the Firearms Consultative Committee. [34716]
§ Mr. HowardI have today placed a copy of the annual report of the Firearms Consultative Committee in the Library.