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Firearms: Crime
James Brokenshire:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were
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committed involving (a) handguns, (b) rifles, (c) shotguns, (d) air weapons and (e) imitation firearms in each year since 1996-97. [193453]
Mr. Coaker:
The requested data from 1996 up to and including 2006-07 are given in the following table.
| Crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales in which firearms were reported to have been used by type of principal weapon, 1996 to 2006-07 |
| Number of offences |
| | 1996 | 1997 | 1997-98 | 1998-99( 1) | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02( 2) | 2002-03( 3) | 2003-04 | 2004-05( 4) | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
|
Shotgun
|
933
|
580
|
565
|
642
|
693
|
608
|
712
|
672
|
718
|
597
|
642
|
613
|
|
Handgun
|
3,347
|
2,648
|
2,636
|
2,687
|
3,685
|
4,110
|
5,874
|
5,549
|
5,144
|
4,360
|
4,672
|
4,175
|
|
Rifle
|
62
|
51
|
55
|
43
|
67
|
36
|
64
|
52
|
48
|
54
|
71
|
69
|
|
Imitation firearm
|
436
|
511
|
533
|
566
|
823
|
787
|
1,246
|
1,814
|
2,146
|
3,373
|
3,277
|
2,517
|
|
Air weapon
|
7,813
|
7,506
|
7,902
|
8,665
|
10,103
|
10,227
|
12,377
|
13,822
|
13,756
|
11,825
|
10,439
|
8,839
|
(1 )There was a change in the counting rules for recorded crime on 1 April 1998.
(2) Figures may have been inflated by some police forces implementing the principles of the National Crime Recording Standard before 1 April 2002.
(3 )The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by this.
(4) More explicit guidelines for the classification of weapons introduced on 1 April 2004 may have increased the recording of firearm offences. Particulary those commited by imitation weapons.
|
Forced Marriage: Children
Damian Green:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements her Department makes to pass on to (a) schools and (b) social services departments the details of children identified by the police, the Border and Immigration Agency or other Home Office bodies as being vulnerable to offences associated with surrounding forced marriage; and if she will make a statement. [194709]
Mr. Coaker
[holding answer 18 March 2008]: Where children are identified as being vulnerable to forced marriage, actions to safeguard those children will be taken as part of child protection procedures. This will include the involvement of the police and local safeguarding children’s boards.
Guidelines for professionals (police, education professionals, health and social workers) on dealing with cases of forced marriage have also been issued by the Forced Marriage Unit. When implemented, the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 will place these guidelines on a statutory footing.
Gating Orders
Mr. Stewart Jackson:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many gating orders under the Highways Act 1980 were (a) applied for and (b) granted in each local authority area in England in each year since 2001. [193685]
Mr. Coaker:
Details of the number of “gating orders”, (a) applied for are not collected centrally. Details of the number of “gating orders”, (b) granted for crime or antisocial behaviour purposes under section 129A of the Highways Act 1980 are collected by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and are provided in the following table. These orders came into force on 1 April 2006.
| Local authority | Number of gating orders |
|
Ardur DC
|
—
|
|
Allerdale BC
|
—
|
|
Alnwick BC
|
—
|
|
Amber Valley BC
|
0
|
|
Arun DC
|
0
|
|
Ashfield DC
|
0
|
|
Ashford BC
|
—
|
|
Aylesbury Vale DC
|
0
|
|
Babergh DC
|
0
|
|
Barnsley MBC
|
0
|
|
Barrow in Furness BC
|
—
|
|
Basildon DC
|
0
|
|
Basingstoke and Deane BC
|
—
|
|
Bassetlaw DC
|
—
|
|
Bath and N E Somerset
|
0
|
|
Bedford BC
|
0
|
|
Berwick-upon-Tweed BC
|
0
|
|
Birmingham CC
|
—
|
|
Blaby DC
|
0
|
|
Blackburn and Darwen BC
|
—
|
|
Blackpool BC
|
0
|
|
Blyth Valley BC
|
—
|
|
Bolsover DC
|
—
|
|
Bolton MBC
|
0
|
|
Boston BC
|
0
|
|
Bournemouth BC
|
—
|
|
Bracknell Forest BC
|
—
|
|
Bradford MDC
|
—
|
|
Braintree DC
|
—
|
|
Breckland DC
|
0
|
|
Brentwood BC
|
0
|
|
Bridgnorth DC
|
0
|
|
Brighton and Hove BC
|
—
|
|
Bristol CC
|
—
|
|
Broadland DC
|
0
|
|
Bromsgrove DC
|
0
|
|
Broxbourne BC
|
—
|
|
Broxtowe DC
|
0
|
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|
Burnley BC
|
—
|
|
Bury BC
|
0
|
|
Calderdale BC
|
—
|
|
Cambridge CC
|
—
|
|
Cannock Chase DC
|
0
|
|
Canterbury CC
|
0
|
|
Caradon CC
|
0
|
|
Carlisle CC
|
—
|
|
Carrick CC
|
—
|
|
Castle Morpeth BC
|
0
|
|
Castle Point DC
|
0
|
|
Charnwood BC
|
—
|
|
Chelmsford BC
|
—
|
|
Cheltenham BC
|
—
|
|
Cherwell DC
|
0
|
|
Chester CC
|
0
|
|
Chester-le-Street DC
|
0
|
|
Chesterfield BC
|
0
|
|
Chichester DC
|
0
|
|
Chiltern DC
|
0
|
|
Chorley BC
|
0
|
|
Christchurch BC
|
0
|
|
Colchester BC
|
—
|
|
Congleton BC
|
0
|
|
Copeland BC
|
—
|
|
Corby DC
|
—
|
|
Cotswold DC
|
—
|
|
Coventry CC
|
2
|
|
Craven DC
|
0
|
|
Crawley BC
|
0
|
|
Crewe and Nantwich BC
|
—
|
|
Dacorum BC
|
0
|
|
Darlington BC
|
—
|
|
Dartford BC
|
0
|
|
Daventry DC
|
0
|
|
Derby CC
|
0
|
|
Derbyshire Dales DC
|
0
|
|
Derwentside DC
|
—
|
|
Doncaster DC
|
—
|
|
Dover DC
|
0
|
|
Dudley DC
|
—
|
|
Durham City Council
|
0
|
|
E Cambridgeshire DC
|
—
|
|
E Devon DC
|
0
|
|
E Dorset DC
|
0
|
|
E Hampshire DC
|
0
|
|
E Hertfordshire DC
|
0
|
|
E Lindsey DC
|
—
|
|
E Northamptonshire DC
|
—
|
|
E Riding of Yorkshire DC
|
0
|
|
E Staffordshire BC
|
—
|
|
Easington DC
|
0
|
|
Eastbourne BC
|
—
|
|
Eastleigh BC
|
0
|
|
Eden
|
0
|
|
Ellesmere Port and Neston
|
0
|
|
Elmbridge BC
|
0
|
|
Epping Forest DC
|
0
|
|
Epsom and Ewell BC
|
0
|
|
Erewash BC
|
0
|
|
Exeter CC
|
—
|
|
Fareham
|
0
|
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|
Fenland DC
|
0
|
|
Forest Heath DC
|
0
|
|
Forest of Dean DC
|
—
|
|
Fylde BC
|
0
|
|
Gateshead BC
|
0
|
|
Gedling DC
|
—
|
|
Gloucester CC
|
—
|
|
Gosport BC
|
—
|
|
Gravesham BC
|
—
|
|
Great Yarmouth BC
|
0
|
|
Guildford BC
|
—
|
|
Halton BC
|
0
|
|
Hambleton DC
|
0
|
|
Harborough DC
|
0
|
|
Harlow DC
|
—
|
|
Harrogate BC
|
—
|
|
Hart DC
|
—
|
|
Hartlepool BC
|
—
|
|
Hastings BC
|
0
|
|
Havant BC
|
0
|
|
Herefordshire DC
|
0
|
|
Hertsmere BC
|
0
|
|
High Peak BC
|
0
|
|
Hinckley and Bosworth BC
|
0
|
|
Horsham DC
|
0
|
|
Huntingdonshire DC
|
0
|
|
Hyndburn BC
|
0
|
|
Ipswich BC
|
0
|
|
Isle of Wight DC
|
0
|
|
Isles of Scilly DC
|
0
|
|
Kennet DC
|
0
|
|
Kerrier DC
|
0
|
|
Kettering BC
|
0
|
|
Kings Lynn and W Norfolk DC
|
—
|
|
Kingston upon Hull City Council
|
—
|
|
Kirklees BC
|
0
|
|
Knowsley BC
|
—
|
|
Lancaster CC
|
0
|
|
LB Corporation of London
|
—
|
|
LB Barking and Dagenham
|
1
|
|
LB Barnet
|
0
|
|
LB Bexley
|
—
|
|
LB Brent
|
—
|
|
LB Bromley
|
—
|
|
LB Camden
|
0
|
|
LB Croydon
|
—
|
|
LB Ealing
|
—
|
|
LB Enfield
|
—
|
|
LB Greenwich
|
0
|
|
LB Hackney
|
0
|
|
LB Hammersmith and Fulham
|
—
|
|
LB Haringey
|
2
|
|
LB Harrow
|
0
|
|
LB Havering
|
0
|
|
LB Hillingdon
|
0
|
|
LB Hounslow
|
0
|
|
LB Islington
|
—
|
|
LB of Kensington and Chelsea
|
0
|
|
LB of Kingston upon Thames
|
—
|
|
LB Lambeth
|
0
|
|
LB Lewisham
|
—
|
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|
LB Merton
|
—
|
|
LB Newham
|
—
|
|
LB Redbridge
|
—
|
|
LB Richmond upon Thames
|
—
|
|
LB Sutton
|
—
|
|
LB Southwark
|
—
|
|
LB Tower Hamlets
|
0
|
|
LB Waltham Forest
|
0
|
|
LB Wandsworth
|
0
|
|
Leeds CC
|
7
|
|
Leicester City
|
—
|
|
Lewes DC
|
—
|
|
Lichfield DC
|
0
|
|
Lincoln CC
|
—
|
|
Liverpool CC
|
—
|
|
Luton BC
|
0
|
|
Macclesfield BC
|
—
|
|
Maidstone BC
|
—
|
|
Maldon DC
|
0
|
|
Malvern Hills DC
|
0
|
|
Manchester CC
|
—
|
|
Mansfield DC
|
—
|
|
Medway TC
|
1
|
|
Melton BC
|
—
|
|
Mendip DC
|
0
|
|
Mid Bedfordshire DC
|
0
|
|
Mid Devon DC
|
—
|
|
Mid Suffolk DC
|
0
|
|
Mid Sussex DC
|
—
|
|
Middlesbrough CC
|
0
|
|
Milton Keynes BC
|
—
|
|
Mole Valley DC
|
0
|
|
N Cornwall DC
|
0
|
|
N Devon DC
|
0
|
|
N Dorset DC
|
0
|
|
N Hertfordshire DC
|
0
|
|
N Kesteven DC
|
0
|
|
N Lincolnshire DC
|
10
|
|
Norfolk DC
|
0
|
|
N Shropshire DC
|
0
|
|
N Somerset DC
|
—
|
|
N Tyneside BC
|
—
|
|
N Wiltshire DC
|
—
|
|
N York Moors Park Authority
|
—
|
|
N E Derbyshire DC
|
0
|
|
N E Lincolnshire DC
|
—
|
|
N W Leicestershire DC
|
0
|
|
N Warwickshire BC
|
0
|
|
New Forest DC
|
0
|
|
Newark and Sherwood DC
|
—
|
|
Newcastle upon Tyne CC
|
0
|
|
Newcastle-under-Lyme BC
|
0
|
|
Northampton BC
|
—
|
|
Norwich CC
|
—
|
|
Nottingham CC
|
—
|
|
Nuneaton and Bedworth BC
|
—
|
|
Oadby and Wigston BC
|
0
|
|
Oldham BC
|
—
|
|
Oswestry BC
|
0
|
|
Oxford CC
|
—
|
|
Pendle BC
|
—
|
|
Penwith DC
|
0
|
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|
Peterborough CC
|
0
|
|
Plymouth CC
|
—
|
|
Poole BC
|
—
|
|
Portsmouth CC
|
0
|
|
Preston CC
|
1
|
|
Purbeck DC
|
0
|
|
Reading DC
|
1
|
|
Redcar and Cleveland DC
|
0
|
|
Redditch BC
|
—
|
|
Reigate and Banstead BC
|
—
|
|
Restormel BC
|
—
|
|
Ribble Valley BC
|
0
|
|
Richmondshire DC
|
0
|
|
Rochdale BC
|
—
|
|
Rochford DC
|
0
|
|
Rossendale BC
|
0
|
|
Rother DC
|
—
|
|
Rotherham DC
|
1
|
|
Rugby BC
|
—
|
|
Runnymede BC
|
0
|
|
Rushcliffe BC
|
—
|
|
Rushmoor BC
|
0
|
|
Rutland CC
|
0
|
|
Ryedale CC
|
0
|
|
S Bedfordshire DC
|
—
|
|
S Bucks DC
|
—
|
|
S Cambridgeshire DC
|
0
|
|
S Derbyshire DC
|
—
|
|
S Gloucestershire DC
|
0
|
|
S Hams DC
|
0
|
|
S Holland DC
|
—
|
|
S Kesteven DC
|
—
|
|
S Lakeland DC
|
0
|
|
S Norfolk DC
|
—
|
|
S Northamptonshire DC
|
0
|
|
S Oxfordshire DC
|
0
|
|
S Ribble BC
|
0
|
|
S Shropshire DC
|
0
|
|
S Somerset DC
|
0
|
|
S Staffordshire C
|
0
|
|
S Tyneside DC
|
0
|
|
Salford CC
|
12
|
|
Salisbury DC
|
0
|
|
Sandwell BC
|
1
|
|
Scarborough BC
|
—
|
|
Sedgefield DC
|
—
|
|
Sedgemoor DC
|
0
|
|
Sefton MBC
|
—
|
|
Selby DC
|
0
|
|
Sevenoaks DC
|
—
|
|
Sheffield CC
|
—
|
|
Shepway DC
|
0
|
|
Shrewsbury and Atcham BC
|
—
|
|
Slough BC
|
—
|
|
Solihull BC
|
1
|
|
Southampton CC
|
1
|
|
Southend-on-Sea BC
|
0
|
|
Spelthorne BC
|
0
|
|
St. Albans CC
|
0
|
|
St. Edmundsbury BC
|
0
|
|
St. Helens MBC
|
0
|
|
Stafford BC
|
0
|
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|
Staffordshire Moorlands DC
|
0
|
|
Stevenage BC
|
0
|
|
Stockport BC
|
—
|
|
Stockton-on-Tees DC
|
3
|
|
Stoke-on-Trent CC
|
20
|
|
Stratford-on-Avon DC
|
0
|
|
Stroud DC
|
0
|
|
Suffolk Coastal DC
|
0
|
|
Sunderland CC
|
0
|
|
Surrey Heath BC
|
0
|
|
Swale BC
|
0
|
|
Swindon BC
|
—
|
|
Tameside BC
|
0
|
|
Tamworth BC
|
0
|
|
Tandridge DC
|
0
|
|
Taunton Deane DC
|
—
|
|
Teesdale DC
|
0
|
|
Teignbridge DC
|
—
|
|
Telford and Wrekin DC
|
0
|
|
Tendring DC
|
—
|
|
Test Valley BC
|
0
|
|
Tewkesbury BC
|
0
|
|
Thanet DC
|
—
|
|
Three Rivers DC
|
0
|
|
Thurrock BC
|
0
|
|
Tonbridge and Malling BC
|
0
|
|
Torbay BC
|
0
|
|
Torridge DC
|
—
|
|
Trafford BC
|
—
|
|
Tunbridge Wells BC
|
0
|
|
Tynedale DC
|
0
|
|
Uttlesford DC
|
0
|
|
Vale of White Horse DC
|
0
|
|
Vale Royal BC
|
0
|
|
W Devon DC
|
0
|
|
W Dorset DC
|
0
|
|
W Lancashire DC
|
0
|
|
W Lindsey DC
|
0
|
|
W Oxfordshire DC
|
—
|
|
W Somerset DC
|
0
|
|
W Wiltshire DC
|
0
|
|
Wakefield CC
|
—
|
|
Walsall BC
|
0
|
|
Wansbeck DC
|
0
|
|
Warrington BC
|
—
|
|
Warwick DC
|
0
|
|
Watford BC
|
0
|
|
Waveney DC
|
—
|
|
Waverley BC
|
0
|
|
Wealden DC
|
—
|
|
Wear Valley DC
|
0
|
|
Wellingborough DC
|
0
|
|
Welwyn Hatfield DC
|
0
|
|
West Berkshire
|
—
|
|
Westminster CC
|
—
|
|
Weymouth and Portland BC
|
0
|
|
Wigan BC
|
—
|
|
Winchester CC
|
—
|
|
Windsor and Maidenhead RB
|
0
|
|
Wirral MDC
|
—
|
|
Woking BC
|
0
|
|
Wokingham DC
|
0
|
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|
Wolverhampton CC
|
—
|
|
Worcester CC
|
0
|
|
Worthing BC
|
—
|
|
Wychavon DC
|
—
|
|
Wycombe DC
|
—
|
|
Wyre BC
|
0
|
|
Wyre Forest DC
|
0
|
|
York CC
|
0
|
| | |
|
Total
|
64
|
| | |
|
Number of returns received
|
214
|
