HL Deb 07 June 1999 vol 601 cc124-5WA
Lord Marlesford

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many post offices and sub-post offices have been robbed or broken into in each police force area in England in each month during the most recent 12-month period. [HL2593]

Lord Williams of Mostyn

Information collected centrally on recorded crime by the Home Office does not identify the location of robberies. However, separate monthly data are collected on the number of robberies at post offices where a firearm (excluding an air weapon) was reported to have been used. This information, for each month in 1997. is shown in the table. In addition to these figures, there were eight post office robberies during the whole of 1997 where an air weapon was used.

Armed robbery at Post Offices (excluding air weapons) by month and by police force area, 1997
Month
January February March April May June July August September October November December Total
Humberside 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Kent 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3
Lancashire 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 7
Merseyside 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 8
Metropolitan 10 3 7 10 8 6 2 6 6 8 4 13 83
Norfolk 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Northamptonshire 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Northumbria 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 8
North Yorkshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Nottinghamshire 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
South Yorkshire 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6
Staffordshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Surrey 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Sussex 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 6
Thames Valley 3 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 7
Warwickshire 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3
West Mercia 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
West Midlands 3 1 2 6 1 7 4 3 3 2 6 5 43
West Yorkshire 1 0 0 2 2 3 3 3 0 1 0 0 15
Wiltshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 3
Dyfed Powys 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
North Wales 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
South Wales 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2
Total 28 21 15 26 23 25 29 18 20 22 23 32 282