§ Sir Anthony GrantTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the percentage of all crimes represented by crimes of violence and of road accidents involving personal injury in each of the county police areas in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe information requested on crimes of violence is given in the following table. Information on road accidents is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Minister for Transport.
Violence against the person as a percentage of total recorded crime in non-metropolitan police force areas. Police force area 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Percentages Avon and Somerset 3.3 3.3 3.5 4.1 5.0 Bedfordshire 4.9 4.4 4.7 5.0 5.2 Cambridgeshire 3.8 4.0 4.6 4.9 5.8 Cheshire 4.2 4.1 4.3 5.0 5.4 Cleveland 3.6 3.4 3.7 4.1 4.1 Cumbria 3.8 3.7 4.8 5.7 6.3 Derbyshire 4.6 4.7 5.2 6.6 6.7 Devon and Cornwall 3.8 3.6 3.9 4.8 5.0 Dorset 2.7 2.6 3.1 3.5 3.5 Durham 3.8 3.7 4.5 4.9 5.2 Dyfed-Powys 4.5 5.0 5.4 6.3 8.2 Essex 3.8 3.6 4.4 5.5 5.0 Gloucestershire 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.5 3.7 Gwent 5.5 5.4 6.0 7.3 7.8 Hampshire 3.2 3.3 3.4 4.0 4.1 Hertfordshire 3.4 3.4 3.9 4.5 4.5 Humberside 5.3 5.0 5.6 6.2 6.3 Kent 2.9 3.2 3.8 4.1 4.5 Lancashire 2.9 2.7 3.1 3.4 3.2 Leicestershire 4.4 4.3 4.6 5.2 5.1 Lincolnshire 4.1 3.7 4.2 4.9 5.2 Norfolk 2.9 2.7 3.4 4.2 4.1 Northamptonshire 3.8 4.3 4.8 5.4 5.4 North Yorkshire 3.1 3.6 3.8 4.4 5.0 North Wales 4.8 4.7 5.3 6.2 6.5 Nottinghamshire 5.6 5.7 6.2 6.4 6.9 South Wales 2.8 2.8 3.1 3.3 3.8 Staffordshire 7.4 6.8 7.0 7.9 8.7 Suffolk 4.2 4.0 4.8 5.1 5.4 Surrey 4.0 3.9 4.9 5.5 5.2 Sussex 3.1 3.4 3.6 4.0 4.4 Thames Valley 3.0 2.9 3.3 3.8 3.7 Warwickshire 3.3 3.4 3.6 4.4 4.5 West Mercia 4.3 4.4 4.5 5.4 6.0 Wiltshire 4.9 4.7 5.8 6.2 7.2