Juvenile Crime

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-------------------------
|Police force area (pfa)|
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|Greater Manchester     |
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|Metropolitan police1   |
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|West Yorkshire         |
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