HC Deb 06 June 1995 vol 261 cc131-2W
Mr. Robert Ainsworth

To 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.

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.