HC Deb 10 June 1998 vol 313 cc566-7W
Mr. Maclean

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of compensation for hand guns in each police force area made under (i) option A, (ii) option B and (iii) option C are currently outstanding; and what amount has been paid out to date in each force area. [44867]

Mr. Michael

The information is given in the table.

Outstanding Claims
Name of force Option A/B Option C Amount paid £
Avon and Somerset 14 627 1,404,135.90
Bedfordshire 0 251 402,982.43
Cambridgeshire 1 290 509,094.10
Central Scotland 1 81 100,256.10
Cheshire 9 334 1,495,079.80
City of London 0 6 24,892.20
Cleveland 0 194 326,891.36
Cumbria 1 197 350,173.51
Derbyshire 3 426 688,420.16
Devon & Cornwall 3 799 1,602,005.03
Dorset 0 434 898,257.57
Dumfries and Galloway 3 44 79,131.35
Durham 4 219 404,494.49
Dyfed 3 265 396,507.96
Essex 13 1,109 2,402,148.43
Fife 0 82 99,228.10
Gloucestershire 0 236 399,091.11
Grampian 0 207 324,828.05
Greater Manchester 6 844 1,740,952.71
Outstanding Claims
Name of force Option A/B Option C Amount paid £
Gwent 0 281 441,227.32
Hampshire 4 865 1,496,682.03
Hertfordshire 1 483 931,438.04
Humberside 3 317 563,867.62
Kent 4 998 1,587,223.61
Lancashire 1 601 1,674,785.43
Leicestershire 9 236 1,283,815.89
Lincolnshire 0 350 543,710.63
Lothian & Borders 2 211 414,950.32
Merseyside 3 541 1,090,965.34
Metropolitan MPI 0 141 310,062.30
Metropolitan MP2 4 658 1,806,678.30
Metropolitan MP3 17 766 1,371,445.05
Metropolitan MP4 8 848 1,553,036.46
Metropolitan MP5 9 744 1,203,243.53
Norfolk 5 420 841,820.92
North Wales 3 300 1,120,196.81
North Yorkshire 10 352 2,133,358.23
Northamptonshire 2 181 595,426.78
Northern 2 190 366,290.08
Northumbria 1 457 542,259.71
Nottinghamshire 4 459 1,183,314.05
South Wales 3 606 1,061,723.07
South Yorkshire 22 440 849,971.62
Staffordshire 2 444 824,134.20
Strathclyde 6 511 698,078.86
Suffolk 0 540 560,093.40
Surrey 3 571 1,256,143.54
Sussex 12 673 1,158,589.52
Tayside 0 131 215,043.15
Thames Valley 11 1,127 3,785,513.43
Warwickshire 1 260 297,773.69
West Mercia 8 598 1,188,137.34
West Midlands 8 680 1,640,524.38
West Yorkshire 17 640 1,734,827.23
Wiltshire 1 279 488,043.13

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