§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of deaths and personal injuries resulting from air guns have been recorded in England and Wales over the last five years. [45787]
§ Mr. MichaelThe information requested is contained in the table. The information is confined to notifiable offences recorded by the police in which air weapons were reported to have been used. Corresponding figures for accidental deaths or injuries are not available.
Notifiable offences recorded by the police in which air weapons were reported to have been used in England and Wales, by injury Year Fatal injury Other injury 1992 — 1,718 1993 — 1,572 1994 — 1,580 1995 1 1,400 1996 — 1,203 Figures for 1997 are not yet available.