§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, pursuant to his answers to the hon. Member for Christchurch and Lymington on shoplifting on 23 329W February 1977, 5 May 1977, 20 July 1977, 15 December 1977 and 13 February 1978, he will now update the statistics.
§ Mr. MayhewThe information available is published in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales". The latest estimates of persons convicted for the first time are for 1977 and are published in table 10.1 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1978"—Cmnd. 7670. Information on police cautioning and proceedings at magistrates' courts by offence is published annually—table S4.11 of supplementary tables 1980, volume 4, and table S1.1(A) of volume 1 respectively for 1980, and tables 30—or 33 or 34—and 1(a) of the Command Papers for 1976 to 1979. The numbers of persons tried and found guilty by offence are published annually—tables S1.1(A) and S2.1(A) of volumes 1 and 2 respectively of supplementary tables 1980, and tables 1 (a) and 5(a) of the Command Paper for earlier years. Information on the value of property stolen in offences of shoplifting recorded by the police is published annually—table 2.10 of Cmnd. 8376 for 1980.