HC Deb 13 February 1969 vol 777 cc360-1W
61. Mr. Shinwell

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many smash-and-grab raids involving actual robbery and violence have occurred since January, 1965; and what is the financial loss thus sustained.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

I regret that figures are not available for this type of offence or for the amount of financial loss sustained; but the total number of offences of shopbreaking in England and Wales in the three-year period 1965 to 1967 was 340, 675, and of robbery and assault with intent to rob 12,774.