§ Mr. MealeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department of he will update Home Office research study No. 119: "Trends in Crime and their Interpretation."
§ Mr. JackThe study examined a period of some 30 years up to 1987 and was published in 1990. More recent trends in recorded crime are being kept under review, but there is no reason to believe that there have been significant changes in the patterns which it describes in the period since publication.
In coming to its conclusion the study, published in 1990, based its findings on a period of some 30 years up to 1987 and as a consdquence I have no reason to doubt the continuing validity of its conclusions. I therefore have no immediate plans to repeat this particular work using post-1987 crime data.