§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the number of serious crimes in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years and the percentage cleared up each year.
§ Mr. MayhewThe information requested is published in tables 2.1 and 2.14 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1980"—Cmnd. 8376—and tables 1 and 3 of Home Office Statistical Bulletin 4/82.
§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the percentage increase in (a) serious woundings (b) less serious woundings and (c) all indictable offences, between 1967 and 1981.
§ Mr. MayhewInformation on the number of serious offences recorded by the police by type of offence is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales", table 2.2 of the volume for 1980—Cmnd. 8376. Figures for 1981 are published in table 4 of Home Office Statistical Bulletin 4/82.
§ Mr. Proctorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 18 March relating to the collection and publication of Metropolitan Police statistics, if he will list the categories of information relating to criminal serious offences recorded by the police and others for which (a) a crime report is completed, (b) the number of arrests is recorded and (c) the number of offences cleared up is recorded; what figures are collected of ethnic appearance of victim and victim's perception of appearance of assailant or culprit; and which of such figures are published.
§ Mr. MayhewWe will reply as soon as possible.