§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide figures collected by Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary on domestic violence incidents recorded by the police in England and Wales in 1994 in terms comparable with the 1993 figures given in the answer on 26 October 1994 to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton),Official Report, columns 640–41. [41173]
§ Mr. MacleanThe information available has been provided by Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary and is in the table. It covers incidents of domestic violence recorded by the police in England and Wales in calendar year 1993 and financial year 1994–95. HMIC is currently examining the reasons for the disparities highlighted in the table and the methods used by police forces to record incidents of domestic violence.
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Domestic violence incidents recorded by the police in England and Wales in 1993 and 1994–95 Forces 19931 1994–952 Avon and Somerset n/a 1,570 Bedfordshire n/a 6,338 Cambridgeshire 2,253 2,566 Cheshire 17,918 3,117 different classification used City of London 0 3 Cleveland 3,448 3,397 Cumbria 654 1,857 collection and systems improved Derbyshire 7,606 n/a Devon and Cornwall n/a 7,294 Dorset 5,624 6,138 Durham 3,277 1,619 Dyfed-Powys 1,223 1,612
Domestic violence incidents recorded by the police in England and Wales in 1993 and 1994–95 Forces 19931 1994–952 Essex 1,724 12,011 under-recording in 1993 Gloucestershire 2,401 4,612 Greater Manchester 33,988 35,084 Gwent 135 207 Hampshire n/a 4,908 Hertfordshire 3,367 3,748 Humberside 8,401 514 different classification used Kent 5,875 5,865 Lancashire 6,090 5,601 Leicestershire 4,075 4,467 Lincolnshire 373 625 Merseyside 11,956 14,088 1993 figure revised from previous table Metropolitan Police 11,420 n/a Norfolk 881 n/a North Wales 287 357 North Yorkshire 15,841 n/a Northamptonshire 2,104 2,508 Northumbria 2,071 10,364 used wider classification Nottinghamshire 1,990 2,267 South Wales 3,451 3,830 South Yorkshire 482 n/a Staffordshire n/a n/a Suffolk 1,396 1,619 Surrey 3,155 4,471 Sussex 1,157 2,107 Thames Valley 9,167 3,547 1993 includes domestic disputes Warwickshire n/a 500 West Mercia 916 631 1 Calendar year. 2 Financial year.