Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of cases where Section 60 is used result in (a) an illegal object being found and (b) a crime being detected in (i) the London Borough of Havering and (ii) London.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of stop and searches, conducted by each police force in England and Wales under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, on an annual basis. Data are collected at Police Force Area level only and information at borough level is not held centrally.

Home Office stop and search statistics include data on the number of persons found be to carrying weapons and number of arrests following a stop and search, but cannot be used to indicate the number of crimes detected following a stop and search.

Data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, the latest of which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2019