HC Deb 19 November 1998 vol 319 cc726-7W
Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the incidence of(a) injury and (b) death in the Metropolitan Police area, in terms of recorded annual numbers per 1,000 of the population, arising from (i) traffic accidents and (ii) assaults and other violent crimes. [59878]

Kate Hoey

The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has supplied the following figures for 1997–98:

Total Numbers
Personal injury road traffic accidents Assaults/violent crimes
Injury 40,046 49,785
Death 275 1174
1 Excludes all causing death by dangerous driving cases, of which there were 29 deaths recorded in 1997–98.

Note: Per 1,000 of the population based on the Office for National Statistics mid-year estimate for 1996 for the Metropolitan Police District (7,564,200).

Personal injury road traffic accidends Assaults/violent crimes
Injury 5.29 6.58
Death 0.04 10.02
1 Excludes all causing death by dangerous driving cases, of which there were 29 deaths recorded in 1997–98.