§ Mr. Leightonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of robbery and other violent theft was committed by unemployed persons during the last available 12 months.
§ Mr. MayhewThe only information available centrally on the employment status of offenders is that published in Home Office Statistical Bulletin 20/82 relating to those persons arrested during the serious incidents of public disorder in July and August 1981; of the persons arrested then for offences of burglary, theft, etc., about one third were employed. However, this figure may not be typical of persons who committed offences under other circumstances.