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Firearms

Volume 457: debated on Monday 19 February 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many firearms were surrendered in each police authority area in accordance with the provisions of the Firearms (Amendment) Acts 1997. (119501)

The information requested is given in the table.

Total

England and Wales

Avon and Somerset

4,495

Bedfordshire

1,374

City of London

133

Cambridgeshire

1,794

Cheshire

2,978

Cleveland

1,065

Cumbria

1,287

Derbyshire

2,554

Devon and Cornwall

5,090

Dorset

3,100

Durham

1,441

Dyfed Powys

1,793

Essex

6,766

Gloucestershire

1,700

Greater Manchester

5,522

Gwent

1,564

Hampshire

5,172

Hertfordshire

2,674

Humberside

1,737

Kent

5,170

Lancashire

3,291

Leicestershire

3,094

Lincolnshire

1,808

Merseyside

3,965

Met Area 1

965

Met Area 2

3,980

Met Area 3

4,486

Met Area 4

5,864

Met Area 5

4,528

Norfolk

3,128

Northamptonshire

1,607

Northumbria

2,561

North Wales

1,817

North Yorkshire

4,025

Nottinghamshire

4,754

South Wales

3,983

South Yorkshire

3,007

Staffordshire

3,947

Suffolk

2,341

Surrey

4,462

Sussex

4,318

Thames Valley

5,626

Warwickshire

1,223

West Mercia

3,687

West Midlands

6,476

West Yorkshire

4,944

Wiltshire

1,876

Scotland

Central Scotland

409

Dumfries and Galloway

352

Fife

430

Grampian

891

Lothian and Borders

1,692

Northern

1,438

Strathclyde

2,933

Tayside

881