Crime (Clear-up Statistics)

HC Deb 24 February 1993 vol 219 cc596-7W

1992. Mr. Mike O'Brien

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were the clear-up rates for crime in(a) 1979 and (b)

Mr. Jack

The requested information for 1979 is published in table 2.21 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales 1989". Information for 1992 is not yet available but information for 1991, which is the latest published figure, has just been published in table 2.11 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales 1991". Copies of both are available in the Library.

	Offence
	51	52	53	60	61
	Fraud by company director etc.	False accounting	Other fraud	Forgery, or use of, false drug prescription	Other forgery etc.	Total fraud and forgery
1988	40	2,075	119,645	1,307	10,806	133,873
1989	25	2,106	121,756	1,196	9,407	134,490
1990	53	2,001	133,866	1,009	10,980	147,909
1991	24	1,623	159,136	968	12,991	174,742
Offences cleared up 1991
Number	20	1,535	84,630	775	10,007	96,967
Percentage	1(83)	95	53	80	77	55
1 () Percentages in brackets are based on totals of less than 100.