§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the annual crime detection rates for all crimes and for violent crimes for each year since 1978.
§ Mr. John PattenThe information requested for 1978 to 1988 is published in table 2.17 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1988" Cm 847, and for 1989 in table 6 of Home Office statistical bulletin 10/90. Copies of both these publications are available in the Library.
§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were(a) the total number of crimes and (b) the number of violent crimes in Wales in each year from 1978.
§ Mr. John PattenThe information requested for 1978 to 1988 is published in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales", in table 32 for the years 1978 to 1979 and in table 2.5 for the years 1980 to 1988; and for 1989 in table 7 of Home Office statistical bulletin 10/90. Copies of these publications are available in the Library.