§ Mr. David Atkinsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the detection rates for each of the police authorities for the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. HurdThe information requested is given in the following table. These clear-up rates are average rates for all notifiable offences recorded and as clear-up rates differ markedly for different categories of offence they are affected by variations in the type of offences recorded and the circumstances of those offences.
Clear-up rate for total number of notifiable offences* recorded by the police in each police force area in England and Wales 1982 Police force area Percentage Avon and Somerset 40 Bedfordshire 39 Cambridgeshire 40 Cheshire 52 Cleveland 46 Cumbria 43 Derbyshire 46 Devon and Cornwall 45 Dorset 41 Durham 45 Essex 40 Gloucestershire 42 Greater Manchester 40 Hampshire 34 Hertfordshire 47 Humberside 41 Kent 41 Lancashire 45 Leicestershire 46 Lincolnshire 52 London, City of 20 Merseyside 40 Metropolitan Police District 16 Norfolk 37 Northamptonshire 41 Northumbria 49 North Yorkshire 43 Nottinghamshire 43 South Yorkshire 49 Staffordshire 49 Suffolk 45 Surrey 31 Sussex 45 Thames Valley 39 Warwickshire 39 West Mercia 43 West Midlands 33 West Yorkshire 42 Wiltshire 40 Dyfed-Powys 57 Gwent 57 North Wales 50 South Wales 47 England and Wales 37 * Excluding "other criminal damage" value £20 and under.