HC Deb 08 February 1991 vol 185 cc271-2W
Mr. Campbell-Savours

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the police areas which cover each parliamentary constituency in Kent.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

A number of parliamentary constituencies covering London boroughs include areas which have Kent postal addresses. These constituencies are: Ravensbourne, Orpington, Chislehurst, Beckenham, Old Bexley and Sidcup, Bexleyheath and Erith and Crayford. All are within the Metropolitan police district. Constituencies in the county of Kent are all policed by the Kent constabulary.

Mr. Campbell-Savours

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) for each police area in Kent, what are the most recent recorded figures for(a) crimes of violence against the person, (b) property theft, including thefts from vehicles and (c) burglaries;

(2) for each police area in Kent, what were the recorded figures in 1979 for (a) crimes of violence against the person, (b) property theft, including thefts from vehicles and (c) burglaries;

(3) for each police area in Kent what were the recorded figures in 1989 for (a) crimes of violence against the person, (b) property theft, including theft from vehicles and (c) burglaries.

Mr. John Patten

Information for the Kent police force area for 1979 is published in table 32 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1979", a copy of which is available in the Library. Figures for 1989 and the latest 12 months to the end of September 1990 have also been placed in the Library. Corresponding information for police areas in Kent is not collected centrally.

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