HC Deb 21 March 1979 vol 964 c606W
Mr. Parry

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cars have been stolen on Merseyside in each of the past five years to the latest available date.

Mr. John

The information is available only from 1 April 1974, and is published annually in"Criminal Statistics, England and Wales "—table 28 of the volume for 1977 (Cmnd. 7289). The number of such offences recorded by the police in Merseyside in 1978 was 19,459.