HC Deb 13 November 1991 vol 198 cc538-9W
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were(a) recorded and (b) reported but unrecorded relating to (i) vandalism, (ii) theft from vehicles, (iii) burglary, (iv) wounding, (v) theft of vehicles, (vi) theft from persons, (vii) robbery and (viii) theft from homes, in each poke authority area in Wales for every year between 1979 to 1990.

Mr. John Patten

Information available to the Home Office is for recorded crimes—notifiable offences—only and tables are published for police force areas for Wales in table 32 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales" for the year 1979: for 1980 to 1989 in "Criminal Statistics England and Wales Supplementary Volume 3", table 3.1. Copies of these publications are in the Library, as are tables for 1990. Information about crime reported to the police but not recorded by them is not collected centrally. There is no specific offence of vandalism, but criminal damage is usually regarded as covering this type of offence.

Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of total crimes was accounted for by(a) burglary, (b) robbery, (c) criminal damage, (d) fraud and forgery, (e) sexual offences, (f) violence against the person, (g) theft and (h) other offences, in each police authority area in Wales for every year between 1979 to 1990.

Mr. John Patten

Information for the years 1988–90 is contained in the table. Information for earlier years could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Percentage of notifiable offences recorded in Wales by police force area
Number of offences
Burglary Robbery Criminal damage Fraud and forgery Sexual offences Violence against the person Theft Other offences
1990
Dyfed Powys 16.5 0.1 17.9 6.4 1.5 8.8 47.9 1.0
Gwent 16.5 0.3 17.1 3.7 1.0 7.0 53.7 0.7
North Wales 22.0 0.2 18.7 3.1 0.8 6.2 48.3 0.7
South Wales 20.2 0.2 20.4 2.2 0.4 3.2 52.9 0.5
1989
Dyfed Powys 15.4 0.1 19.6 6.4 1.5 8.2 47.7 1.1
Gwent 15.2 0.2 17.6 4.2 1.3 7.8 53.1 0.6
North Wales 21.3 0.2 17.8 5.2 1.5 6.5 46.8 0.7
South Wales 21.2 0.2 19.1 2.3 0.4 3.8 52.4 0.5
1988
Dyfed Powys 16.3 0.1 19.2 8.0 1.6 6.3 47.5 1.1
Gwent 17.1 0.2 16.1 4.3 1.2 7.3 53.1 0.7
North Wales 25.0 0.2 15.0 5.3 0.9 6.2 46.9 0.5
South Wales 21.5 0.2 16.0 2.3 0.4 3.3 55.9 0.4