§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) business frauds, (b) cheque, credit and cash card frauds, (c) thefts from companies, (d) thefts from employees, (e) offences of shoplifting, (f) offences of vandalism against business and (g) assaults at the work place were committed (i ) in England and Wales and (ii) in each police force area in 1991.
§ Mr. JackThe only available information for notifiable offences is contained in the table. The British crime survey provides an estimate of some 350,000 assaults which occurred at the work place in 1991, many of which will have been between co-workers. There were about 80,000 incidents said to be because of the nature of the work being undertaken, most of them perpetrated by clients and customers.
682W
Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force area England and Wales 1991 Police force area Theft by an employee Theft from shops Fraud by a company director Avon and Somerset 641 6,625 0 Bedfordshire 152 2,417 0 Cambridgeshire 186 4,822 0 Cheshire 484 4,248 0 Cleveland 124 3,263 2 Cumbria 101 4,531 0 Derbyshire 207 3,860 0 Devon and Cornwall 392 7,087 0 Dorset 381 2,865 3 Durham 219 2,683 0 Essex 356 7,424 1 Gloucestershire 173 8,320 0 Greater Manchester 708 18,547 0 Hampshire 750 8,959 1 Hertfordshire 260 4,125 0 Humberside 345 7,729 0 Kent 410 9,218 0 Lancashire 510 6,022 1 Leicestershire 233 3,752 0 Lincolnshire 168 5,659 0 City of London 76 281 0 Merseyside 328 9,351 0 Metropolitan Police District 3,168 31,765 10 Norfolk 209 4,616 1 Northamptonshire 174 2,895 0 Northumbria 411 10,595 0 North Yorkshire 205 5,119 0 Nottinghamshire 399 8,653 1 South Yorkshire 334 6,382 0 Staffordshire 423 4,778 3 Suffolk 358 4,309 0 Surrey 292 2,280 0 Sussex 699 7,948 0 Thames Valley 640 11,009 1 Warwickshire 95 1,692 0 West Mercia 142 5,451 0 West Midlands 562 12,911 0 West Yorkshire 954 11,335 0 Wiltshire 194 3,262 0 Dyfed-Powys 103 2,158 0 Gwent 146 2,768 0 North Wales 187 2,478 0 South Wales 365 7,084 0 England and Wales 17,264 281,276 24