Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions tasers were used by the police in (a) Preston, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West in 2014.

The Home Office routinely publish the Police Use of Taser Statistics in England and Wales. The Police Use of Taser Statistics in England and Wales for July to
December 2014 have not yet been published. The Police Use of Taser Statistics for January to June 2014 are published on Gov.uk.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-use-of-taser-statistics-england-and-wales-january-to-june-2014-data-tables

The statistics show that Taser was used (either drawn, red-dot, aimed, arced, drive-stun, angle drive-stun, or fired) by the police 84 times in Lancashire
between January and June 2014. Police forces in the North West, including Merseyside, Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Lancashire, used Taser on
756 occasions in this period.The Home Office cannot provide detailed figures on the number of occasions Taser was used in Preston. Data on location is incomplete. The cost to retrieve, validate and quality assure this data would be disproportionate.

The Home Secretary has already set out, in October 2014, that there is a need to bring much greater transparency and accountability to how this sensitive tactic
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.