HC Deb 21 November 1990 vol 181 cc122-3W
Mr. Geraint Howells

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the figures of crime rates in Dyfed, Wales, for each year since 1970; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. John Patten

The available information is on notifiable offences recorded by the police in the Dyfed-Powys police area and is published annually: for 1970–73 in "Supplementary Statistics Relating to Crime and Criminal Proceedings"; for 1974–89 in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—table 2.4 for 1989 and corresponding tables in issues for earlier years, and for the 12 months to June 1990 in "Home Office Statistical Bulletin" 31/90. Copies of all these publications are available in the Library.