HC Deb 03 November 1983 vol 47 c419W
18. Mr. Alton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total number of recorded crimes for the first nine months of 1983.

Mr. Mellor

In the first six months of 1983 the police recorded 1.6 million notifiable offences in England and Wales almost exactly the same number as in the first six months of 1982. Figures for the third quarter are not yet available but will be published in a Home Office statistical bulletin in December.

33. Mr. Teddy Taylor

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the provisional figures for the numbers of crimes and offences for the year to date; and what were the comparable figures for the same period five years previously.

Mr. Mellor

Figures of notifiable offences recorded by the police are published quarterly in Home Office statistical bulletins; issue 17/83 published on 28 September contains information up to the second quarter of 1983. In the first six months of 1983 the police recorded 1,618,000 notifiable offences; the corresponding number for the first six months of 1978 was 1,287,000 but these figures are not directly comparable because of changes to the counting rules introduced at the beginning of 1980.