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Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total number was of (a) injuries and (b) deaths (i) per police force area and (ii) in total arising from (A) traffic accidents and (B) assaults and other violent crimes; and if he will make a statement. [128395] Mr. Charles Clarke: The requested details on injuries and deaths resulting from assaults and other violent crimes are not collected centrally. Recorded crime data in relation to certain offences of violence against the person are given in the table. Please note that the offences given as wounding and assault may represent attempts, conspiring, inciting, aiding, abetting, causing or permitting, and not result in an actual injury. The British Crime Survey has estimated that, in 1997, there were 714,000 assaults with more than trivial injury (`wounding'), and 2,276,000 common assaults, ie physical assaults or attempted assault with at most slight bruising. These categories do not necessarily coincide with those from the recorded crime figures. The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions has recently published the transport statistical bulletin `Road Casualties in Great Britain: Main Results 1999', which includes the requested details in table 6. This is available in the Library. Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force year ending September 1999 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Police force Homicide Attempted murder and Other wounding Assault on a constable wounding or other act (including racially and common assault endangering life aggravated other (including racially wounding) aggravated common assault) Avon and Somerset 19 284 3,856 6,139 Bedfordshire 4 223 1,917 2,138 Cambridgeshire 7 238 2,244 1,875 Cheshire 9 262 2,815 1,364 Cleveland 8 108 1,461 1,047 Cumbria 3 95 2,627 991 Derbyshire 12 197 3,306 4,033 Devon and Cornwall 18 376 3,101 5,444 Dorset 4 96 1,005 1,379 Durham 8 123 1,393 1,812 Essex 17 92 3,666 2,832 Gloucestershire 9 151 1,552 1,253 Greater Manchester 60 2,318 18,223 10,247 Hampshire 18 191 5,339 4,837 Hertfordshire 1 135 1,533 920 Humberside 13 296 4,116 2,535 Kent 16 402 5,679 3,778 Lancashire 24 438 3,005 2,965 Leicestershire 16 313 4,633 3,636 Lincolnshire 7 89 1,654 1,306 London City of -- 7 202 118 Merseyside 31 694 7,631 2,384 Metropolitan Police 188 2,162 39,960 72,780 Norfolk 8 193 2,213 1,771 Northamptonshire 7 140 1,116 2,352 Northumbria 15 448 4,538 3,442 North Yorkshire 3 69 1,491 1,996 Nottinghamshire 18 239 6,775 2,955 South Yorkshire 13 421 3,043 1,930 Staffordshire 16 40 6,422 1,697 Suffolk 4 94 1,881 1,255 Surrey 1 101 2,344 1,284 Sussex 19 154 5,955 7,786 Thames Valley 21 195 5,672 3,846 Warwickshire 4 63 893 736 West Mercia 7 187 2,045 3,449 West Midlands 50 1,563 11,114 17,114 West Yorkshire 29 876 7,990 4,000 Wiltshire 5 50 1,744 2,088 Dyfed-Powys 4 104 1,841 1,180 Gwent 1 289 3,113 4,773 North Wales 6 102 1,952 2,118 South Wales 26 783 4,891 2,222 England and Wales 749 15,401 197,951 203,807 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

128395; 353 c68-70W;353 c68-9W

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Death Crimes against the person Crimes of violence Accidents Injuries Road traffic Roads

Contains statistics

Yes

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