§ Viscount Ullswaterasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many weapons were surrendered to police during the national firearms amnesty which ran from 3rd to 30th June.
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§ Baroness BlatchDuring the course of the recent amnesty, nearly 23,000 firearms, 700,000 rounds of ammunition and 3,000 other weapons were surrendered to police forces in Great Britain. We are very pleased with the response. Every one of the thousands of
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Summary of firearms and other weapons and ammunition surrendered to the police during the firearms amnesty June 1996 by police force area Number of items surrendered Total firearms Police force area Rifles Smooth-bore guns Hand guns Other firearms All firearms Total other weapons Total rounds of ammunition Avon and Somerset 30 354 207 287 878 41 16,410 Bedfordshire 12 86 21 54 173 15 5,200 Cambridgeshire 21 149 47 91 308 7 8,066 Cheshire 37 137 69 133 376 19 11,969 Cleveland 5 53 27 113 198 0 4,043 Cumbria 29 144 80 112 365 13 7,243 Derbyshire 35 87 81 134 337 20 10,730 Devon and Cornwall 125 450 239 296 1,110 71 10,733 Dorset 53 193 110 165 521 55 24,321 Durham 18 108 61 118 305 2 4,774 Essex 68 361 123 241 793 223 15,994 Gloucestershire 30 110 23 147 310 4 5,200 Greater Manchester 21 86 97 216 420 5 17,981 Hampshire 71 293 0 352 716 227 27,500 Hertfordshire 13 57 37 54 161 4 5,366 Humberside 20 109 81 49 259 198 11,021 Kent 50 215 133 190 588 63 14,909 Lancashire 26 185 88 205 504 36 37,938 Leicestershire 26 149 67 162 404 43 11,490 Lincolnshire 44 266 57 99 466 6 13,909 London, City of 0 1 0 5 6 0 1,569 Merseyside 16 39 70 120 245 36 5,948 Metropolitan Police 70 206 283 497 1,056 11 34,895 Norfolk 20 289 79 217 605 5 15,155 Northamptonshire 16 86 58 62 222 5 2,411 Northumbria 44 101 109 174 428 5 16,499 North Yorkshire 26 130 68 87 311 17 9,259 Nottinghamshire 11 200 84 217 512 18 10,338 South Yorkshire 17 81 139 115 352 180 9,860 Staffordshire 24 155 71 173 423 59 20,635 Suffolk 57 324 107 162 650 79 16,468 Surrey 32 111 94 131 368 91 12,960 Sussex 73 282 208 310 873 116 35,002 Thames Valley 102 316 211 235 864 53 20,917 Warwickshire 15 80 48 69 212 5 9,666 West Mercia 29 244 85 168 526 24 14,047 West Midlands 39 129 126 303 597 55 19,306 West Yorkshire 24 97 83 145 349 519 6,938 Wiltshire 55 221 61 108 445 17 15,180 Total England 1,404 6,684 3,632 6,516 18,236 2,347 541,850 Dyfed Powys 43 292 117 41 493 4 25,047 Gwent 17 40 22 31 110 1 1,366 North Wales 21 148 65 98 332 0 15,464 South Wales 20 141 74 105 340 44 7,309 Total Wales 101 621 278 275 1,275 49 49,186 Total England and Wales 1,505 7,305 3,910 6,791 19,511 2,396 591,036 Central Scotland 24 83 30 78 215 33 3,035 Dumfries and Galloway 40 144 26 75 285 32 4,983 Fife 20 126 30 131 307 98 12,900 Grampian 40 298 76 133 547 116 13,120 Lothian and Borders 50 141 64 242 497 29 14,455 Northern 70 172 51 75 368 26 18,504 Strathclyde 78 284 195 379 936 45 30,805 Tayside 32 96 60 85 273 87 6,359 Total Scotland 354 1,344 532 1,198 3,428 466 104,161 Total Great Britain 1,859 8,649 4,442 7,989 22,939 2,862 695,197 weapons which have been handed in no longer poses a threat to the community. The following table gives a detailed summary of the types of firearm surrendered to each force: