HC Deb 28 June 1993 vol 227 cc340-1W
Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 4 March,Official Report, column 279, what proportion of the clear-up rate for each police force in 1992 was accounted for by offences taken into consideration.

Mr. Maclean

The information requested is contained in the table.

Notifiable offences cleared up by the police in 1992 Proportion of offences cleared up by being taken into consideration
Police force area Per cent.
Avon and Somerset 10
Bedfordshire 16
Cambridgeshire 20
Cheshire 10
Cleveland 34
Cumbria 19
Derbyshire 14
Devon and Cornwall 12
Dorset 16
Durham 11
Essex 18
Gloucestershire 14
Greater Manchester 20
Hampshire 14
Hertfordshire 20
Humberside 15
Kent 18
Lancashire 18
Leicestershire 22
Lincolnshire 15
City of London 12
Merseyside 16
Metropolitan police district 9
Norfolk 16
Northamptonshire 15
Northumbria 18
North Yorkshire 24
Nottinghamshire 26
South Yorkshire 5
Staffordshire 11
Suffolk 14
Surrey 17
Sussex 17
Thames Valley 18
Warwickshire 11
West Mercia 14
West Midlands 12
West Yorkshire 15
Wiltshire 13
Dyfed-Powys 10
Gwent 8

Police force area Per cent.
North Wales 15
South Wales 6
Total 16