§ Mr. EdwardsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the detection rate was for crimes in each police force in England and Wales in the last year for which figures are available. [30169]
§ Mr. DenhamThe latest available information on detection rates for total crime in police force areas, for the year ended March 2001, has been published in table 2.10 of The Stationery Office publication "Criminal Statistics England and Wales 2000", and is given below.
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Overall detection rate for recorded crime by police force area England and Wales 2000–01 Police force area Overall Detection Rate Avon and Somerset 22 Bedfordshire 27 Cambridgeshire 24 Cheshire 30 Cleveland 21 Cumbria 34 Derbyshire 26 Devon and Cornwall 34 Dorset 25 Durham 34 Essex 26 Gloucestershire 31 Greater Manchester 22 Hampshire 29 Hertfordshire 24 Humberside 21 Kent 28 Lancashire 27 Leicestershire 28 Lincolnshire 25 London, City of 27 Merseyside 28 Metropolitan Police 15 Norfolk 26 Northamptonshire 33 Northumbria 31 North Yorkshire 30 Nottinghamshire 20 South Yorkshire 25 Staffordshire 23 Suffolk 35 Surrey 28 Sussex 23 Thames Valley 22 Warwickshire 22 West Mercia 27 West Midlands 28 West Yorkshire 23 Wiltshire 30 Dyfed-Powys 63 Gwent 57 North Wales 31 South Wales 32 England and Wales 24