HC Deb 13 December 2001 vol 376 cc1006-7W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the reduction in residential burglary. [17057]

Mr. Denham

Our target is that, by March 2005, there will bea reduction in recorded domestic burglary of 25 per cent. (compared to the 12 months to March 1999)—ie down from 473,349 at least to 355,011; no local authority area having a domestic burglary rate (measured in burglaries per thousand households) more than three times the national average.

In the 12 months to March 2001, there were 402,984 recorded burglaries; a reduction of 14.9 per cent. compared to March 1999.

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