HC Deb 21 March 1984 vol 56 cc467-9W
Mr. Proctor

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the numbers of victims of recorded offences of assault, burglary and criminal damage in 1982 and 1983 for each Metropolitan police division and for the district as a whole; if he will give an ethnic breakdown for each set of figures; and if he will make a statement on those figures;

(2) if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing (a) the total number of recorded offences of robbery and other violent thefts for each of the Metropolitan police divisions in 1982, (b) the number of assailants who, to the victim, appeared to be coloured, white, mixed groups and not known and (c) the percentage proportion of each group to the total in each case; and if he will make a statement on the figures;

(3) if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the numbers of victims of recorded offences of robbery and other violent theft for each Metropolitan police division and for the whole district in 1982 and 1983; if he will give an ethnic breakdown of each set of figures; and if he will make a statement on these figures;

(4) if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the total number of persons arrested, prosecuted and convicted for offences of robbery and other violent theft by each police division in metropolitan London in 1982 and 1983; if he will give an ethnic breakdown in each case; and if he will make a statement on these figures;

(5) if he will publish in the Official Report the annual figures for the number of persons arrested in each Metropolitan police division and for the district as a whole for crimes of assault, burglary and criminal damage in 1982 and 1983; if he will give an ethnic breakdown in each case; and if he will make a statement on these figures;

(6) how many persons were arrested in the Metropolitan police district for offences of violence against police officers in 1982 and 1983; if he will give a breakdown of these figures (a) in terms of ethnic appearance of the persons arrested and (b) by police division; and if he will make a statement on these figures.

Mr. Hurd

Information for 1982 was published together with a commentary in a Home Office statistical bulletin on 3 November 1983: "Crime Statistics for the Metropolitan Police District analysed by ethnic groups", (Issue No. 22/83). Corresponding information for 1983 is not yet available.