HC Deb 15 November 1996 vol 285 c380W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many assaults with knives there were in Scotland in the last five years. [3384]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

Information on the total number of assaults with knives in that period is not available. The combined number of recorded victims of homicide and in-patient discharges from Scottish hospitals as a result of assaults with a knife or pointed article in the five years from and including 1991 was 6,664. The table gives a breakdown of this figure.

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