Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of people on whom tasers were used by the police in (a) each London borough, (b) each police authority and (c) in the UK were aged (i) under 12, (ii) under 14, (iii) under 16, (iv) under 18, (v) under 21, (vi) under 24, (vii) over 35, (viii) over 40, (ix) over 50, (x) over 55, (xi) over 60, (xii) over 65, (xiii) over 70, (xiv) over 75 and (xv) over 80 in the last five years; and what proportion of those people were (A) from each ethnic group and (B) estimated to have had mental health problems.

The cost of identifying the information and providing it in the format
requested would be disproportionate.

The Home Secretary already set out in October 2014 that there is a need to
bring much greater transparency and accountability to how the sensitive tactic
of Taser is used, and has asked Chief Constable David Shaw to conduct an
in-depth review of the publication of Taser data and other use of force. This review will
consider how to publish data on the age, ethnicity and location of Taser usage
for publication.