Crime Clear-up Rates

HC Deb 13 June 1996 vol 279 c226W

Mr. Brian Jenkins

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the crime clear-up rate and annual percentage change in each year since 1979 in(a) Staffordshire and (b) the west midlands. [32259]

Mr. Maclean

The information requested is given in the following table:

Clear-up rates in Staffordshire and the West Midlands
	Staffordshire	West Midlands
Year	Clear up rate per cent.	Change in percentage points	Clear up rate per cent.	Change in percentage points
1979	51	1—	37	1—
1980	47	-4	33	-4
1981	49	+2	32	-1
1982	49	0	33	+1
1983	47	-2	36	+3
1984	48	+1	30	-6
1985	52	+4	30	0
1986	44	-8	29	-1
1987	42	-2	36	+7
1988	45	+3	42	+6
1989	43	-2	39	-3
1990	39	-4	36	-3
1991	37	-2	31	-5
1992	30	-7	27	-4
1993	29	-1	27	0
1994	31	+2	25	-2
1995	32	+1	24	-1
1 Not appplicable.