§ 36. Mr DevlinTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress his Department is making towards reducing the level of crime in north Yorkshire.
§ Mr. John PattenThe total number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in north Yorkshire from January to September 1988 fell by 5 per cent. when compared with the same period in 1987. The national decrease was 3.7 per cent. In particular, burglaries in north Yorkshire decreased by 14.2 per cent. This coincides with an increase of over 250 good neighbour schemes in the area, bringing the total number of schemes there to 1,331, covering almost 32,000 households.