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Lord Hanningfield
asked Her Majesty's Government:How many incidents of gun crime were recorded in Greater London in each of the past 10 years, including the number of (a) woundings; and (b) deaths. [HL1490]
Baroness Scotland of Asthal
The available information relates to the London region (i.e. the Metropolitan and City of London police force areas) and is given in the tables. Information on injuries in the London region is available only from 1997.Table 1. Offences recorded by the police in which firearms were reported to have been used.
| London Region: 1995 to 2003–04 | |
| Period | Number of offences |
| 19951 | 1,918 |
| 19961 | 1,742 |
| 19971 | 2,930 |
| 1997–98 | 1,951 |
| 1998–992 | 2,034 |
| 1999–2000 | 2,945 |
| 2000–01 | 3,036 |
| 2001–023 | 4,199 |
| 2002–034 | 4,201 |
| 2003–04 | 3,891 |
| London Region: 1997 to 2003–04 | |||
| Period | Fatal injury | Serious injury | Slight injury |
| 19971 | 26 | 89 | 290 |
| 1997–98 | 24 | 83 | 294 |
| 1998–992 | 19 | 62 | 361 |
| 1999–2000 | 24 | 67 | 532 |
| 2000–01 | 28 | 101 | 603 |
| 200l–023 | 44 | 154 | 787 |
| 2002–034 | 35 | 176 | 771 |
| 2003–04 | 23 | 159 | 740 |
| 1 Excluding offences of "other criminal damage" of value £20 and under. | |||
| 2 There was change in counting rule for recorded crime on 1 April 1998. | |||
| 3 Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by some police forces implementing the principles of the national crime recording standard before 1 April 2002. | |||
| 4 The national crime recording standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by this. | |||