§ 39. Mr. BurtTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the measures which his Department is taking to reduce crime in Greater Manchester.
§ 44. Mr. SoamesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the most recent available figures for recorded crime in West Sussex.
§ Mr. HurdThe available information relates to the police force area of Sussex. Information for 1988 was published in tables 7 and 8 of "Home Office Statistical Bulletin 7/89", a copy of which is in the Library. I have also sent some further details of the figures for 1988 for their local force area to all right hon. and hon. Members for constituencies in England and Wales and placed copies of those further details in the Library. In the first quarter of 1989 Sussex police recorded 4 per cent. more offences than in the first quarter of 1988.