To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answers of 5 February 1992, Official Report, column 163, and 14 February 1992, Official Report, column 664–65, if he will call for a report from the chief constables of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the West Midlands as to how many detectives were employed during 1990–91 obtaining voluntary admissions from convicted criminals.

The information requested is not available.