Mr. Robert AinsworthTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the recovery rate for stolen vehicles in 1994(a) in total and (b) by constabulary. [26178]
§ Mr. Maclean[holding answer 25 May 1995]: Revised figures for 1994 are given in the table. They up-date the figures given in the reply to the hon. Member on 1 May at columns 96–98. These figures remain provisional and finalised data will be published in the command paper, "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1994", later this year.
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Notifiable offences of theft of a vehicle recorded by the police, 1994 percentage of vehicles recovered by police forces area1 Police Force area Percentage recovered Avon and Somerset 19 Bedfordshire 62 Cambridgeshire 43 Cheshire 53 Cleveland 55 Cumbria 67 Derbyshire 62 Devon and Cornwall 85 Dorset 63 Durham 49 Essex 73 Gloucestershire 67 Greater Manchester 64 Hampshire 51
Notifiable offences of theft of a vehicle recorded by the police, 1994 percentage of vehicles recovered by police forces area1 Police Force area Percentage recovered Hertfordshire 68 Humberside 85 Kent 53 Lancashire 81 Leicestershire 72 Lincolnshire 82 City of London 86 Merseyside 73 Metropolitan Police — Norfolk 50 Northamptonshire 53 Northumbria 71 North Yorkshire 60 Nottinghamshire 61 South Yorkshire 57 Staffordshire 57 Suffolk 66 Surrey 47 Sussex 50 Thames Valley 62 Warwickshire 73 West Mercia 75 West Midlands 70 West Yorkshire 60 Wiltshire 46 Dyfed-Powys — Gwent 61 North Wales 75 South Wales 65 England and Wales 622 1 Provisional. 2 Excluding the Metropolitan Police and Dyfed-Powys.