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Football Offences Act

Volume 196: debated on Thursday 17 October 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the total number of arrests and convictions made under each section of the Football Offences Act 1991 since the beginning of the 1991–92 football season.

Firm statistics are not yet available, but I understand from the national football intelligence unit that the number of arrests made under each section of the 1991 Act up to 16 October 1991 and reported to the unit is as follows:

Number
section 2
(throwing of missiles)10
section 3
(indecent or racialist chanting)23
section 4
(going on to the playing area)40
Total73
No information on the number of convictions is yet available.