§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his latest estimate of the percentage of annual retail turnover lost through unauthorised entry to premises by retailers in the United Kingdom; and what information he has on the percentage lost through similar crime by retailers in other EC countries.
§ Mr. JackIt is estimated that retailers lose around two per cent of turnover annually through the disappearance of stock. This loss includes thefts of all descriptions; the proportion attributable to unauthorised entry is not known and cannot be ascertained. Information about losses elsewhere in the EC is not available.
452W1991 which will be analysed via the Offenders' Index for conviction history. Table 1 gives the number of juveniles by their cautioning history and table 2 gives the percentage of juveniles with their cautioning history for each relevant police force. Care should be taken with the percentages in table 2, where the actual number of persons in the category is small, as these are liable to some sampling error.