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Mrs. Currie
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in rank order the police authorities of England and Wales, showing the number of vacant police flats and houses in each authority for the most recent date.
Mr. Charles Wardle
The most recent figures available, which are those for 31 March 1991, are set out in the following table:
| Vacant police houses and flats as at 31 March 1991 | |
| Police Authority | Vacant Houses and Flats |
| City of London | 0 |
| Cleveland | 2 |
| Bedfordshire | 3 |
| Surrey | 6 |
| Merseyside | 7 |
| Leicestershire | 8 |
| South Yorkshire | 8 |
| West Yorkshire | 9 |
Police Authority
| Vacant Houses and Flats
|
| Warwickshire | 11 |
| Norfolk | 11 |
| Sussex | 12 |
| Northamptonshire | 13 |
| Nottinghamshire | 14 |
| West Midlands | 15 |
| Cambridgeshire | 17 |
| Hertfordshire | 17 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 20 |
| Humberside | 21 |
| Durham | 22 |
| Wiltshire | 25 |
| Dorset | 25 |
| Suffolk | 25 |
| Cheshire | 27 |
| Gwent | 29 |
| Northumbria | 32 |
| Staffordshire | 32 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 34 |
| Lincolnshire | 34 |
| Gloucestershire | 35 |
| Avon and Somerset | 38 |
| Kent | 40 |
| Hampshire | 40 |
| North Yorkshire | 42 |
| Essex | 47 |
| South Wales | 50 |
| West Mercia | 56 |
| Thames Valley | 56 |
| Lancashire | 61 |
| Cumbria | 65 |
| Greater Manchester | 70 |
| North Wales | 70 |
| Derbyshire | 80 |
| Metropolitan Police | 385 |
| Total | 1,614 |