To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) reports, (b) investigations and (c) arrests there were of crimes committed in the areas covered by (i) Hammersmith and (ii) Fulham police stations for the offence of incitement to racial hatred for the years (a) 1994, (b) 1995 and (c) 1996. [81684]

The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis tells me that such information as to the offence of incitement to racial hatred was not identifiable from other collected data before the introduction of the Metropolitan Police crime reporting computer system on 30 July 1996 at Hammersmith Police Station and 27 August 1996 at Fulham Police Station. No cases of incitement to racial hatred were reported or investigated, and no arrests were made, in the period from 30 July 1996 to end December 1996 at Hammersmith and, during the period 27 August 1996 to end December 1996, at Fulham.