HC Deb 23 June 2000 vol 352 cc340-1W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total clear-up rate of recorded crimes in each police force in England and Wales and in total in(a) 1979, (b) 1987 and (c) in each year since 1992. [127210]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The requested details are given in the table.

Percentage clear-up rate by police force and in total1,2
Police force area 1979 1987 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1997–98 1998–993
Devon and Cornwall 46 39 18 25 27 27 30 32 34 36
Dorset 46 36 32 33 30 28 27 29 30 31
Durham 52 42 30 30 32 30 30 31 30 33
Essex 42 35 29 32 36 33 29 27 28 29
Gloucestershire 51 38 24 20 24 27 23 24 26 31
Greater Manchester 45 27 35 34 34 24 17 20 20 25
Hampshire 46 34 26 26 27 28 28 30 30 35
Hertfordshire 54 44 26 21 24 28 30 32 33 34
Humberside 45 32 23 16 17 19 20 20 21 22
Kent 50 33 27 25 29 26 32 31 31 34
Lancashire 56 46 37 35 33 34 33 29 29 34
Leicestershire 54 45 30 28 30 29 31 34 34 34
Lincolnshire 60 37 39 37 32 39 42 48 46 40
London, City of 21 19 20 22 27 23 27 26 28 33
Merseyside 42 43 42 39 33 27 29 31 31 31
Metropolitan Police 21 16 16 17 23 25 23 26 25 22
Norfolk 47 36 34 28 34 31 32 37 36 37
Northamptonshire 48 41 30 27 31 28 34 35 35 33
Northumbria 53 44 17 20 22 23 24 26 26 30
North Yorkshire 51 34 33 30 25 23 25 26 26 33
Nottinghamshire 51 34 26 29 28 23 28 28 26 25
South Yorkshire 51 43 26 20 24 24 23 29 32 32
Staffordshire 51 42 30 29 31 32 34 35 34 32
Suffolk 57 45 39 37 35 34 33 37 39 41
Surrey 47 34 22 20 30 31 29 33 35 40
Sussex 53 32 23 24 24 28 29 26 26 25
Thames Valley 45 31 19 21 22 23 25 24 25 25
Warwickshire 46 34 23 21 24 25 24 27 29 26
West Mercia 49 42 34 29 29 28 26 28 27 34
West Midlands 37 36 27 27 25 24 23 24 25 30
West Yorkshire 37 39 25 18 20 21 24 27 27 27
Wiltshire 42 36 37 35 36 32 29 32 32 38
Dyfed-Powys 62 51 53 50 53 57 58 61 62 69
Gwent 60 53 44 45 47 50 50 51 51 55
North Wales 59 43 33 36 39 32 33 34 36 43
South Wales 46 39 30 28 24 29 32 36 36 39
England and Wales 41 33 26 25 26 26 26 28 28 29
1 1979 to 1997 figures are for calendar years, and 1997–98 and 1998–99 are years ending 31 March.
2 Figures up to 1997–98 are based on the recorded crime counting rules in use up to 31 March 1998. They also exclude offences of criminal damage under £20.
3 The figures are based on the number of crimes recorded in the financial year using the expanded offence coverage and revised counting rules which came into effect on 1 April 1998, and including all offences of criminal damage. Owing to these changes, these clear-up rates cannot be compared directly with previous years.