§ Mr. Fatchettasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were the numbers of registered indictable offences (a) in Leeds and (b) in West Yorkshire during March and April; and what were the comparable figures for March and April 1983.
§ Mr. MellorThe information readily available centrally is for police force areas and is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales" (table 2.5 of the volume for 1982, Cmnd. 9048). Corresponding information for 1983 was published in table 6 of Home Office statistical bulletin 5/84 on 15 March; in the first quarter of 1983, 40,900 notifiable offences were recorded by the police in West Yorkshire. Statistics for the first quarter of 1984 will be available next month.