HC Deb 28 November 2000 vol 357 cc513-4W
Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo) of 13 November 2000,

to the latest date for which information is available; and how many resulted in convictions. [139715]

Mrs. Roche

Available information taken from the Home Office Court Proceedings database is given in the table:

Official Report, column 539W, on police station closures, how many police stations have (a) opened and (b) closed in Sussex in each year since 1979. [140266]

Mr. Charles Clarke

I understand from the Chief Constable that he is unable to provide information on the number of police stations that have opened or closed between March 1979 and March 1990. Since March 1990, the number of police stations in Sussex has increased by two to 36, with one new police station opened in each of the financial years 1998–99 and 1999–2000. The information provided by the force indicates that no police stations were closed between 1990 and 2000.