Crime Clear-up Rates (Hansard, 4 July 1996)

HC Deb 04 July 1996 vol 280 c514W 514W

§ 20. Mr. Flynn
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the trend in crime clear-up rates since 1987. [34537]

§ Mr. Kirkhope
Although the overall clear-up rate for recorded crime in England and Wales has fluctuated between 33 per cent. in 1987 and 26 per cent. in 1995, the number of offences cleared up has increased during that period from 1,229,000 to 1,270,000 last year. For violence against the person and sexual offences, the clear-up rates has remained fairly consistent at around three quarters of all such recorded crimes.