§ 26. Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the average police expenditure required to clear up each crime in England and Wales (a) in 1978 and (b) in 1985, expressed in each case in 1985 prices.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe information requested is not available.
§ 28. Mr. Boyesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report a statement of the number of crimes in 1985 in each police force area in England and Wales expressed as a rate per 100,000 population.
§ Mr. MellorThe information requested is given in the following table. It will be published in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1985" in the autumn.
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Notifiable offences recorded by the police per 100,000 population; by police force area, 1985 England and Wales Numbers Avon and Somerset 5,882 Bedfordshire 6,887 Cambridgeshire 5,404 Cheshire 4,822 Cleveland 9,099 Cumbria 5,679 Derbyshire 5,247 Devon and Cornwall 4,794 Dorset 5,573 Durham 7,174 Essex 4,763 Gloucestershire 5,582 Greater Manchester 11,202 Hampshire 5,690 Hertfordshire 4,848 Humberside 8,755 Kent 4,972 Lancashire 5,794 Leicestershire 5,516 Lincolnshire 5,527 Merseyside 10,443 Metropolitan Police* 10,257 Norfolk 5,229 Northamptonshire 6,633 Northumbria 11,186 North Yorkshire 5,126 Nottinghamshire 9,125 South Yorkshire 6,547 Staffordshire 5,156 Suffolk 4,400 Surrey 3,865 Sussex 4,962 Thames Valley 5,847 Warwickshire 4,564 West Mercia 4,902 West Midlands 9,207 West Yorkshire 8,261
England and Wales Numbers Wiltshire 5,178 Dyfed-Powys 3,734 Gwent 6,371 North Wales 5,331 South Wales 7,587 England and Wales 7,258 * Including City of London.
§ 31. Mr. John Fraserasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the increase since 1978 in the number of offences of violence against the person in the Metropolitan police district.
§ Mr. MellorI refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a Question by the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) on 24 April at column 183.
§ 33. Mr. Allan Robertsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the percentage increase in crimes of violence against the person since 1978 in (a) England and Wales, and (b) each of the three police force areas in England and Wales which recorded the highest percentage increase.
§ Mr. MellorNumbers of offences of violence against the person recorded in each police force area are published each year in chapter 2 of the command paper "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales", and more recently for 1985 in a Home Office statistical bulletin (Table 6 of Issue number 4/86). Comparisons over time may be affected by variations in the comprehensiveness of recording of offences and changes in police recording practices; and where numbers of recorded offences are small they are more liable to be affected by irregular variation.
§ 54. Mr. Patchettasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each year since 1977 the clear-up rate for all crimes in the Metropolitan police district.
§ Mr. MellorThe information requested is published annually in the "Report of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis" (Table D of Appendix 4i of the report for 1985, Cmnd. 9790).
§ 67. Mrs. Currieasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the latest detection rates for (a) serious crime and (b) all reported crime in (i) Derbyshire and, (ii) the United Kingdom as a whole; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MellorClear-up rates for England and Wales in 1985 were published by type of offence in table 5 of Home Office Statistical Bulletin 4/86 on 13 March 1986. A comparison with the figures for Derbyshire police force is given in the following table.
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Notifiable offences recorded by the police in 1985; clear-up rales* Percentages Offence group Derbyshire police force area England and Wales Violence against the person 88 73 Sexual offences 91 72 Burglary 39 29 Robbery 54 22 Theft and handling stolen goods 56 35
Offence group Derbyshire police force area England and Wales Fraud and forgery 92 68 Criminal damage† 37 23 Other offences 95 93 All notifiable offences† 55 35 * Offences cleared up in 1985 as a percentage of the total number of offences recoreded in 1985. † Excluding offences of criminal damage of value £20 or under.