§ Mr. BeithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a breakdown of the numbers of racially motivated crimes reported over the last 15 years for each police authority in the United Kingdom. [1530]
§ Mr. Maclean[holding answer 24 November 1995]: The available information relates to reported racial incidents in England and Wales since 1989 and has been provided by Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary. The figures for 1994–95 will be published shortly. Figures for Scotland and Northern Ireland are matters for the Secretary of State in each Department.
Reported racial incidents by police force area: 1989 to 1993–94 Police force area 1989 1990 1991 1992 11993–94 Avon and Somerset 71 83 148 98 159 Bedfordshire 25 33 0 57 60 Cambridgeshire 60 71 107 110 100 Cheshire 0 0 3 29 98 Cleveland 55 57 68 73 50 Cumbria 4 1 9 13 17 Derbyshire 20 53 143 60 221 Devon and Cornwall 3 6 9 7 14 Dorset 12 3 9 10 25 Durham 23 41 70 40 32 Essex 26 43 59 80 133 Gloucestershire 20 51 25 33 28 Greater Manchester 40 123 204 401 658 Hampshire 50 42 141 139 212 Hertfordshire 49 51 0 106 117 Humberside 52 67 81 68 79 Kent 81 88 120 56 160 Lancashire 93 201 119 231 262 Leicestershire 190 287 369 338 315 Lincolnshire 2 2 4 5 4 City of London 0 0 0 0 1 Merseyside 123 144 162 134 155 Metropolitan Police — 2,908 3,373 3,227 2 5,124 Norfolk 22 23 45 30 33 Northamptonshire 72 66 60 120 102 Northumbria 217 289 376 349 405 North Yorkshire 6 12 20 22 22 Nottinghamshire 27 135 221 222 264 South Yorkshire 52 117 124 151 106 Staffordshire 44 101 158 95 117 Suffolk 62 74 75 55 73 Surrey 7 7 50 61 79 Sussex 141 92 98 98 214 Thames Valley 128 171 201 195 166 Warwickshire 21 44 32 35 87 West Mercia 6 13 3 19 100 West Midlands 169 268 445 379 487 West Yorkshire 306 254 322 218 244 Wiltshire 19 25 29 24 51 Dyfed Powys 0 0 0 0 0 Gwent 4 5 12 31 21 North Wales 1 0 3 4 2 South Wales 94 308 385 311 400 England and Wales 12,397 6,359 7,882 7,734 10,997 1 Financial year data. Some of the increase in total reported incidents in 1993–94 may be attributable to the implementation of a precise definition of a racial incident when included in the Police Service Performance Indicator Suite. 2 Adjusted figure (due to a change in classification criteria) from that given in the Official Report (24 June 1994, Column 330). 3 Excluding Metropolitan Police.