HC Deb 21 November 1991 vol 199 cc262-3W
Mr. Hardy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of crimes committed in each police area in 1979 and in 1990 with the percentage change given in each case.

Mr. John Patten

This information is published annually in chapter 2 of the Command Paper "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales" the latest edition of which, Cm 1322, contains 1989 statistics. 1990 figures were published in "Home Office Statistical Bulletin No. 4/91" in March 1991. Both publications have been placed in the Library of the House.