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Mr. Milburn
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many thefts of shotguns there were in 1991 in each police force area (a) from domestic premises and (b) from all premises.
Mr. Maclean
The following table shows, for each police force in England and Wales in 1991, the number of notifiable offences of burglary and theft in which shotguns were reported to have been stolen from domestic and all premises:
Notifiable offences of burglary and theft in which shot guns were stolen | ||
Police force area | Domestic premises | All premises |
Avon and Somerset | 15 | 20 |
Bedfordshire | 4 | 8 |
Cambridgeshire | 9 | 10 |
Cheshire | 7 | 13 |
Cleveland | 3 | 4 |
Cumbria | 7 | 8 |
Derbyshire | 5 | 6 |
Devon and Cornwall | 27 | 35 |
Dorset | 2 | 2 |
Durham | 21 | 24 |
Essex | 14 | 17 |
Gloucestershire | 4 | 6 |
Greater Manchester | 4 | 5 |
Hampshire | 16 | 20 |
Hertfordshire | 2 | 2 |
Humberside | 7 | 7 |
Kent | 30 | 46 |
Lancashire | 18 | 27 |
Leicestershire | 7 | 13 |
Lincolnshire | 6 | 9 |
London, City of | — | — |
Merseyside | 6 | 7 |
Metropolitan Police District | 22 | 28 |
Norfolk | 17 | 25 |
Northamptonshire | 10 | 11 |
Northumbria | 15 | 21 |
North Yorkshire | 12 | 18 |
Nottinghamshire | 1 | 4 |
South Yorkshire | 20 | 26 |
Staffordshire | — | — |
Suffolk | 11 | 11 |
Surrey | 17 | 20 |
Sussex | 13 | 16 |
Thames Valley | 21 | 35 |
Warwickshire | 6 | 10 |
West Mercia | 8 | 11 |
West Midlands | 8 | 11 |
West Yorkshire | 7 | 11 |
Wiltshire | 3 | 5 |
Dyfed-Powys | 3 | 6 |
Gwent | — | — |
North Wales | 6 | 10 |
South Wales | 2 | 6 |
England and Wales | 416 | 574 |