Ethnic appearance (not including those with gender not recorded)
Unknown
415,793
Asian
210,801
Black
315,779
Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian
22,803
Middle Eastern
29,261
White-North European
3,316,161
White-South European
78,219
Gender
Male
3,524,657
Female
864,160
Chris Huhne:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people now aged over 10 years old on the national DNA database had their profile added to the database when they were under the age of 10; and how many were in each age group under 10 years old at the time their profile was added. [294202]
Alan Johnson:
Government policy is that English and Welsh police forces should not hold profiles of children under 10 on the national DNA database (NDNAD). Following the announcement of this policy on 16 December 2008, profiles of all those who were under 10 at the time a DNA sample was taken from them were removed, regardless of whether their current age was under or over 10. The national DNA database is regularly monitored to confirm that this policy remains in effect.
Firearms
Chris Grayling:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 24 June 2009, Official Report, column 886W, on firearms, whether figures are available for incidents excluding those relating to air weapons; and what the equivalent figures are for 2008-09. [294284]
Alan Johnson:
I can confirm that the data provided in the answers of 24 June 2009, Official Report, column 886W and 15 October 2009, Official Report, column 1054W, referred to offences involving firearms excluding air weapons, despite the table headings indicating otherwise due to a typographical error. Available data relate to offences recorded in the period 1998-99 up to and including 2007-08, and are reproduced in the following table.
Provisional data show that 8,184 firearm offences (excluding air weapons) were recorded in England and Wales in 2008-09. Data at police force area level are scheduled to be published in the January 2010 Home Office Statistical Bulletin "Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2008/09", an internet-only release that will be available at:
Data on offences involving firearms including air weapons for the period 1998-99 to 2007-08 were provided in the answer of 21 April 2009, Official Report, column 593W.
Firearms are taken to be involved in a crime if they are fired, used as a blunt instrument against a person, or used as a threat.
The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Firearm offences data for the years up to and including 2001-02 are not directly comparable with those for later years.
Crimes recorded by the police in which firearms (excluding air weapons) were reported to have been used( 1) by region and police force area: England and Wales, 1998-99 to 2007-08 , n umber of offences
Recorded crime
Police force area
1998-99( 2)
1999-2000
2000-01
2001-02( 3)
2002-03( 4)
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
North East Region
Cleveland
20
26
16
24
18
45
37
41
19
15
Durham
13
40
18
19
16
15
21
18
14
45
Northumbria
76
107
99
86
103
169
182
137
111
78
North West Region
Cheshire
32
22
44
50
31
44
61
71
41
59
Cumbria
11
5
13
9
13
11
26
18
21
18
Greater Manchester
647
875
935
1,361
1,240
1,275
1,268
1,200
993
1,160
Lancashire
50
78
59
103
66
58
259
372
364
349
Merseyside
286
240
278
299
318
483
491
485
410
398
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Yorkshire and the Humber Region
Humberside
76
61
69
63
68
68
174
108
117
58
North Yorkshire
11
8
9
28
18
23
13
15
14
17
South Yorkshire
75
114
129
170
153
127
185
301
211
202
West Yorkshire
193
191
335
332
333
269
318
355
319
332
East Midlands Region
Derbyshire
52
65
72
58
73
75
149
109
83
70
Leicestershire
98
71
58
74
174
141
123
89
109
134
Lincolnshire
16
19
24
22
37
26
90
72
45
41
Northamptonshire
54
48
40
55
107
123
113
128
159
164
Nottinghamshire
112
173
157
204
264
233
303
277
196
240
West Midlands Region
Staffordshire
23
53
108
116
131
108
144
128
94
123
Warwickshire
20
14
39
53
62
102
73
80
90
107
West Mercia
38
36
41
54
48
62
151
115
58
124
West Midlands
407
664
817
1,288
1,101
1,138
959
946
979
974
East of England Region
Bedfordshire
46
56
48
82
86
89
94
103
86
83
Cambridgeshire
35
43
31
49
57
34
50
34
24
30
Essex
47
61
77
98
148
145
193
280
255
260
Hertfordshire
30
36
36
69
139
138
139
114
89
112
Norfolk
34
24
20
26
36
33
23
29
34
43
Suffolk
15
18
22
15
28
45
59
58
42
38
London Region( 5)
2,034
2,945
3,036
4,199
4,202
3,891
3,697
3,884
3,331
3,399
South East Region
Hampshire
38
52
49
58
97
130
148
85
122
100
Kent
76
109
108
60
64
65
100
142
92
82
Surrey
35
42
52
40
34
88
63
87
60
70
Sussex
115
119
110
155
136
82
67
85
84
69
Thames Valley
96
107
198
267
362
421
437
401
332
322
South West Region
Avon and Somerset
71
103
100
131
119
123
196
167
138
116
Devon and Cornwall
75
81
64
52
36
84
189
174
132
111
Dorset
11
12
14
34
17
45
49
27
28
21
Gloucestershire
22
21
23
89
92
108
87
77
65
43
Wiltshire
19
10
13
26
60
53
49
43
69
49
Wales
Dyfed-Powys
16
13
26
26
17
37
40
21
17
25
Gwent
26
19
11
18
52
74
85
53
33
47
North Wales
27
10
6
6
18
11
60
88
98
53
South Wales
31
52
67
56
74
47
104
71
67
84
England and Wales
5,209
6,843
7,471
10,024
10,248
10,338
11,069
11,088
9,645
9,865
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England and Wales (excluding London Region)
3,175
3,898
4,435
5,825
6,046
6,447
7,372
7,204
6,314
6,466
(1) Firearms are taken to be involved in a crime if they are fired, used as a blunt instrument against a person or used as a threat. (2) There was a change in the counting rules for recorded crime on 1 April 1998. (3) Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by some police forces implementing the principles of the National Crime Recording Standard before 1 April 2002. (4) The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002, which may have resulted in inflated figures for some crime categories. Figures before and after this date are not directly comparable. (5) City of London and Metropolitan police force areas.
