§ Mrs. CurrieTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in rank order the number of offences committed per head of population in the most recent year available for each police authority in England and Wales.
§ Mr. John PattenThe available information is given in the table:
Notifiable offences recorded by the police per 100,000 population England and Wales 1990 Police force area Offences per 100,000 population Northumbria 14,236 Cleveland 13,363 Nottinghamshire 13,122 Greater Manchester 13,112 Humberside 12,201 Metropolitan Police District 11,642 West Yorkshire 11,420 South Wales 10,649 West Midlands 10,123 Bedfordshire 10,110 Merseyside 9,614 Durham 9,114 Avon and Somerset 8,987 Northamptonshire 8,353 South Yorkshire 8,286 Leicestershire 8,160 Gloucestershire 8,007 Lancashire 7,785 Thames Valley 7,551 Norfolk 7,298 Dorset 7,294 Hampshire 7,178 Gwent 7,084 Staffordshire 6,979 Warwickshire 6,811 Cambridgeshire 6,803 Cumbria 6,782 Kent 6,780 Sussex 6,700 Lincolnshire 6,677 Essex 6,552 Derbyshire 6,501 North Yorkshire 6,403 Devon and Cornwall 6,167 Wiltshire 6,013 Suffolk 5,888 West Mercia 5,836 North Wales 5,805 Cheshire 5,786 Surrey 5,724 Hertfordshire 5,513 Dyfed-Powys 4,427 TOTAL 8,986 1 Including City of London.