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Simon Hughes
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many juveniles were arrested for (a) robbery and (b) other offences defined as street crime in (i) London, (ii) Manchester and (iii) Leeds in each month in 2002. [109606]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth
Statistics are collected on arrests for notifiable offences quarterly, by offence group and police force area (pfa), and are published on a financial year basis. The table shows data for the notifiable offence group of robbery, for the period 2001–02 by
| Number of persons aged 10–17 arrested for robbery, by police force area, England and Wales 2001–02 | |||||
| Police force area (pfa) | April to June 2001 | July to September 2001 | October to December 2001 | January to March 2002 | Total |
| Greater Manchester | 296 | 275 | 271 | 252 | 1,094 |
| Metropolitan police1 | 1,796 | 1,174 | 1,497 | 1,489 | 5,956 |
| West Yorkshire | 198 | 177 | 192 | 209 | 776 |
| 1Includes City of London | |||||