§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list by police authority area the number of illegal guns that have been received over each of the last three years. [49897]
§ Mr. MichaelInformation about illegal firearms received by individual forces is not normally collected centrally. During the national firearms amnesty in 1996, a total of 22,942 firearms were surrendered to forces as follows:
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Police force Total number of firearms Avon and Somerset 878 Bedfordshire 173 Cambridgeshire 308 Cheshire 376 Cleveland 198 Cumbria 365 Derbyshire 337 Devon and Cornwall 1,110 Dorset 521 Durham 305 Essex 793 Gloucestershire 310 Greater Manchester 420 Hampshire 716 Hertfordshire 161 Humberside 259 Kent 588 Lancashire 504 Leicestershire 404 Lincolnshire 466 London, City of Merseyside 245 Metropolitan Police 1,056 Norfolk 605 Northampton 222 Northumbria 428 North Yorkshire 311 Nottinghamshire 512 South Yorkshire 352 Staffordshire 423 Suffolk 650 Surrey 368 Sussex 873 Thames Valley 864 Warwickshire 212 West Mercia 526 West Midlands 597 West Yorkshire 352 Wiltshire 445 Total England 18,239 Dyfed Powys 493 Gwent 110 North Wales 332 South Wales 340 Total Wales 1,275 Total England and Wales 19,514 Central Scotland 215 Dumfries and Galloway 285 Fife 307 Grampian 547 Lothian and Borders 497
Police force Total number of firearms Northern 368 Strathclyde 936 Tayside 273 Total Scotland 3,428 Total Great Britain 22,942