HC Deb 27 February 1992 vol 204 cc571-2W
Mr. Battle

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the number of crimes(a) recorded and (b) detected by the West Yorkshire police for each year from 1976 to 1991 shown (i) in total and (ii) by each police station.

Mr. John Patten

The available information is given in the table. Figures for 1991 are not available. The chief constable's annual report for West Yorkshire gives crimes recorded and detected by sub-division only.

Notifiable offences recorded by the police in West Yorkshire 1976–901
Year Offences recorded Offences cleared up
1976 110,864 57,876
1977 127,942 60,445
1978 122,874 60,250
1979 118,418 43,702
21980 127,527 54,368
1981 138,571 57,191
1982 152,136 63,728
1983 146,307 68,806
1984 158,656 66,751
1985 159,351 67,214
1986 165,586 62,213
1987 173,313 68,062
1988 166,195 71,096
1989 179,185 68,512
1990 227,631 77,073
1 Excluding criminal damage value £20 and under.
2 Figures for 1980 onwards are not precisely comparable with those for previous years.

Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will indicate the number of(a) sexual offences and (b) sexual assaults against men in each year of the last five years for (i) London and (ii) nationally.

Mr. John Patten

Information on sexual offences recorded by the police for 1986 to 1989 is published in table 2.9 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales 1989" and figures for 1990 are published in table 3 of Home Office "Statistical Bulletin 13/91." The equivalent figures for London are published in Table 13.2 of the "Report of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis 1990". Copies of all these publications are available in the Library.

Mr. Caborn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the number of crimes(a) recorded and (b) detected by the North Yorkshire police between October 1976 and September 1977 and in the same October to September period each year since then up to October 1990 to September 1991.

Mr. John Patten

The available information is contained in the table. Clear up statistics are published only for calendar years.

Notifiable offences recorded in North Yorkshire
Period Recorded
12 months ending
September 1977 22,858
September 1978 23,769
September 1979 21,856
September 1980 22,128
September 1981 24,523
September 1982 27.987
September 1983 28,622
September 1984 32,019
September 1985 34,071
September 1986 36,657
September 1987 36,678
September 1988 36,132
September 1989 34,604
September 1990 42,899
September 1991 50,465