Mr. Creech Jonesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state, in relation to the area covered by the West Riding Constabulary, for each of the three years 1959, 1960 and 1961, the number of crimes recorded, the number of crimes detected, and the percentage of detections.
§ Mr. BrookeThe numbers of indictable offences known to the police in 1959, 1960 and 1961 in the area in question were 23,571, 24,641 and 27,307, respec-
64Wmany immigrants arrived during the months of August and September, respectively; from which countries they came; and what were the corresponding figures for each of the last two years.
§ Mr. BrookeI assume that my hon. Friend is referring to immigration from the Commonwealth. The figures are shown in the following tables. Such figures as are available for previous years are not comparable.
tively. The numbers of indictable offences cleared up were 11,106 or 47.1 per cent. in 1959, 11,720 or 47.6 per cent. in 1960 and 13,485 or 49.4 per cent. in 1961.