To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of offences of violence against the police in the Metropolitan police district in each of the last 10 years where the offence involved serious injury; and what is the clear-up rate.

The available information relates to the number of officers assaulted while on duty and is published annually in the report of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. A six-month survey of sentencing for assaults on police officers was conducted from July to December 1991. From this survey it will be possible to tell how many offenders were convicted of injuring a police officer in the Metroplitan police district during that period. The results of the survey will be published as soon as possible.