HC Deb 19 March 1999 vol 327 cc824-5W
Mr. Beith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many 999 calls were received by each police force in each of the last five years. [77287]

Mr. Boateng

The information requested is as follows:

AC2a total 999 calls received
1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98
Avon and Somerset 89,235 159,800 159,095 197,706 198,390
Bedfordshire 43,200 51,192 34,466 59,863 56,870
Cambridgeshire 53,504 58,805 73,923 79,332 82,541
Cheshire 75,094 80,035 90,243 94,953 102,2665
City of London1 0 0 0 0 0
Cleveland 67,398 84,346 87,253 89,061 86,318
Cumbria 33,985 34,729 37,047 37,749 36,206
Derbyshire2 49,457 n/a 94,632 96,746 103,413
Devon and Cornwall 102,391 121,798 148,381 165,013 175,942
Dorset 55,155 54,791 71,700 71,362 73,005
Durham 29,447 29,923 31,424 46,178 51,729
Dyfed-Powys 21,231 24,068 25,208 25,374 29,382
Essex 110,005 114,883 121,934 129,165 176,374
Gloucestershire 40,462 45,388 46,678 62,790 57,833
Greater Manchester 416,873 446,345 500,820 501,093 584663
Gwent 32,191 35,360 36,088 53,471 57,143
Hampshire 162,082 170,560 191,090 211,000 225,355
Hertfordshire 67,610 77,071 87,256 101,283 107,675
Humberside 85,632 88,402 87,653 95,238 106,042
Kent 130,015 141,769 161,149 170,908 168,849
Lancashire 71,986 102,984 156,349 132,194 177,088
Leicestershire 100,232 114,314 129,686 130,940 127,316
Lincolnshire 34,694 45,828 46,556 46,102 48,247
Merseyside 200,711 220,432 251,985 326,654 246,646
Metropolitan Police 1,347,207 1,538,385 1,681,620 1,772,871 1,875,381
Norfolk 37,143 48,984 56,261 63,684 69,852
Northamptonshire 25,027 32,256 55,994 60,028 69,581
Northumbria 213,369 224,569 222,835 229,478 227,129
North Wales 39,945 40,575 42,864 48,131 71,690
North Yorkshire 31,956 56,646 60,561 53,226 43,423
Nottinghamshire 119,489 115,695 129,831 147,739 156,239
South Wales 150,370 158,006 179,586 175,535 196,599
South Yorkshire 123,144 149,178 153,276 177,278 180,197
Staffordshire 58,935 65,266 74,900 76,400 87,737
Suffolk 27,521 30,253 56,112 60,951 61,961
Surrey 56,182 67,268 74,763 80,201 82,399
Sussex 94,251 138,265 151,652 162,452 172,250
Thames Valley 125,754 195,016 221,119 228,508 240,002
Warwickshire 43,468 48,870 54,921 60,861 63,503
West Mercia 80,894 98,539 99,012 110,688 111,924
West Midlands 358,009 412,211 455,056 462,052 479,112
West Yorkshire 267,786 323,081 348,120 342,199 353,125
Wiltshire 25,000 42,768 56,064 60,762 48,243
England and Wales Total2 5,297,040 26,088,654 6,881,163 7,297,219 7,670,039
1 Calls included in with the Metropolitan Police.
2 Figures for Derbyshire are missing for 1994–95 due to the installation of a new call logging system.