HC Deb 08 May 1987 vol 115 c547W
1979 and 1986. Mr. Wareing

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the detection rate for burglaries in the Merseyside police authority area between: (a) 1975 and 1979 and (b)

Mr. Douglas Hogg

In Merseyside the average ratio of offences of burglary cleared up to offences of burglary recorded by the police was 36.5 per cent. in 1975–79, compared with 37.5 per cent. in 1979–86.