Mr. Robert AinsworthTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 17 January,Official Report column 382 what was the recovery rate for stolen vehicles in 1994 (a) in total and (b) by constabulary. [21143]
§ Mr. MacleanProvisional figures for 1994 are given in the table. 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 89 Cleveland 55 Cumbria 28 Derbyshire 62 Devon and Cornwall 85 Dorset 63 Durham 49 Essex 73 Gloucestershire 67 Greater Manchester 64 Hampshire 51 Hertforshire 68 Humberside 85 Kent 53 Lancashire 81 Leicestershire 72 Lincolnshire 82 City of London 2124 Merseyside 73 Metropolitan Police — Norfolk 50 Northamptonshire 53 Northumbria 71 North Yorkshire 60 Nottinghamshire 61 South Yorkshire 57 Staffordshire 57 Suffolk 66 Surrey 47 Susex 50 Thames Valley 62 Warwickshire 73 West Mercia 75 West Midlands 70
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 West Yorkshire 60 Wiltshire 46 Dyfed-Powys — Gwent 61 North Wales 75 South Wales 65 England and Wales 355 1 Provisional.2 Vehicles recovered in 1994 may have been recorded as stolen in earlier years. 3 Excluding the Metropolitan Police and Dyfed-Powys.