To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many stop and searches were conducted in (a) the Metropolitan Police area and (b) other police areas under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in each year since it came into force. (206698)

Statistics on the number of stop-searches conducted under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 are published in two reports on a yearly basis. The Ministry of Justice publications Report Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice, 2006 and the Statistical Bulletin: Arrests for Recorded Crime (Notifiable Offences) and the Operation of Certain Police Powers under PACE, 2005-06 (both the latest available) contain statistics on the number of stops and searches under the Terrorism Act and resultant arrests. The latest version of these publications can be located at:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/arrestsfornotibleoffences.htm

(Table P3, page 27)

http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/raceandcjs.htm

(Table 4.6, page 34)

Publications for previous years can be located at the Home Office Statistical Bulletins Archive located here:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pubsstatistical.html

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/hosbarchive.html