HC Deb 28 January 1986 vol 90 c476W
Mr. Malins

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of total recorded crime in London in each of the last three years consisted of motor vehicle theft; and what proportion was cleared up.

Mr. Mellor

The information requested is given in the table:

Offences of motor vehicle theft recorded by the Police
Metropolitan Police District and City of London Percentages
1982 1983 1984
Recorded offences of motor vehicle theft as a percentage of all offences recorded by the police 15 14 13
Percentage of recorded offences of motor vehicle theft cleared up by the police 9 9 9

Mr. Malins

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what advice he gives to motor vehicle manufacturers in relation to the prevention of auto crime.

Mr. Giles Shaw

The Government believe that motor vehicle manufacturers have a significant role to play in preventing autocrime by designing and producing more secure cars. Last November, I chaired a conference devoted to autocrime, and attended by motor manufacturers, at which both the findings of a Home Office funded research project on design solutions to autocrime and the related report of a working group on car security set up by the Home Office standing conference on crime prevention, were presented. One of the initiatives to emerge from the recent crime prevention seminar held by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister was a British standard for car security to be prepared by the British Standards Institution with the help of motor manufacturers.