HL Deb 22 October 1991 vol 531 c131WA
Lord Harris of Greenwich

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What has been the percentage increase in the level of crime in each year since 1969.

Viscount Astor

The available information covers crime recorded by the police in England and Wales and is contained in the following table:

Percentage change from the previous year in the number of notifiable offences1
England and Wales Percentage change
1970 +5
1971 +6
1972 +1
1973 -2
1974 +18
1975 +7
1976 +1
1977 +15
1978 -3
1979 -1
1980 +6
1981 +10
1982 +10
1983 -1
1984 +8
1985 +3
1986 +7
1987 +1
1988 -5
1989 +4
1990 +17
1 Excluding criminal damage value £20 and under for 1970–77 but including all criminal damage from 1978 onwards.