§ Mr. HainTo ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his oral answer of 1 February,Official Report, column 1120–21, if he will list the years since 1966 when crime fell. [13966]
§ The Prime MinisterBetween June 1993 and June 1995 there were 572,000 fewer crimes recorded than in the preceding two years—the largest fall since records began last century.
Complete year figures are available up to the end of 1994. Since 1966 recorded crime in England and Wales has fallen in the following years: 1973, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1994.