Written question asked by Margaret Moran (Labour) on Tuesday, 24 April 2001, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 1 May 2001. It was answered by Charles Clarke (Labour) on Tuesday, 1 May 2001 on behalf of the Home Office.

Home Office

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests and (b) convictions there were for possession of Class A drugs in Luton in each year since 1991. - Inc fact that information not available in form requested and ref to "Drug Seizure and Offender Statistics, United Kingdom".

Answer: Ms Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) arrests and (b) convictions there were for possession of Class A drugs in Luton in each year since 1991. [159415] Mr. Charles Clarke: Information is not available in the form requested. Information is not collected centrally on arrests for drug offences. Although information is collected on cautions and convictions for drug offences, published breakdowns are not available in the specific form detailed in the question. It would be possible to provide information on cautions and convictions for possession of Class A drugs only at disproportionate cost. The Area Tables of the Home Office bulletin "Drug Seizure and Offender Statistics, United Kingdom" give breakdowns by main type of drug or by main offence type for individual police force areas. Copies of these publications for the period up to and including 1999 are available in the Library. Unfortunately, it is impossible to provide these figures by any other geographical unit.

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