To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many racially-motivated assaults have been recorded in each of the last three years at (a) Tooting and (b) Wandsworth police stations. [81890]
The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis tells me that Wandsworth and Tooting police stations are part of Wandsworth Division and it is not possible to break down the figures below divisional level. He has provided the following information:
| Financial year | Racial assaults |
| 1997–98 | 30 |
| 1998–99 | 66 |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of incitement to racial hatred were (a) reported, (b) investigated and (c) the subject of arrest, in (i) Tooting and (ii) Wandsworth police stations in the last three years. [81888]
The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis tells me that Wandsworth and Tooting police stations are part of Wandsworth Division and it is not possible to break down the figures below divisional level. He has provided the following information for incidents reported under section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986 in Wandsworth Division:
| Financial year | Reported | Investigated | Arrested |
| 1996–97 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997–98 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998–99 | 2 | 2 | 0 |