§ Mrs. Margaret EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give figures for(a) total crime and offences, (b) total crimes, (c) total offences, (d) serious assaults and (e) housebreaking for each year since 1979 inclusive; if he will give the percentage increase or decrease for each year compared with the figure for the previous year together with the total increase or decrease since 1979; and what was the percentage clear-up rate for crimes in each of the years since 1979 inclusive.
§ Mr. John PattenThe information for England and Wales is published annually in tables 2.1 and 2.18 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales" and tables A and D of Home Office statistical bulletin 4/91, copies of which are available in the Library.
Corresponding information for Scotland is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland.