HC Deb 07 March 1996 vol 273 c299W
Dr. Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what have been the(a) crime clear-up and (b) the conviction rates for each police authority area in each of the last five years. [18958]

Mr. Maclean

The information requested on clear-up rates is published in table 2.11 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1994", a copy of which is available in the Library. Information on conviction rates by police force area is given in the table.

Conviction rates for indictable offences by police force area 1990–94
Percentage
Police force area 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Avon and Somerset 64 63 60 56 57
Bedfordshire 63 60 59 55 59
Cambridgeshire 71 67 67 64 58
Cheshire 78 73 71 73 73
Cleveland 71 64 60 59 61
Cumbria 79 75 73 72 72
Derbyshire 73 67 65 62 61
Devon and Cornwall 82 72 72 69 65
Dorset 73 67 66 69 65
Durham 65 61 61 63 63
Essex 69 62 62 62 60
Gloucestershire 68 67 63 61 63
Greater Manchester 78 77 73 74 66
Hampshire 73 68 69 66 67
Hertfordshire 75 64 59 59 58
Humberside 77 76 74 72 73
Kent 84 87 82 77 77
Lancashire 75 75 77 69 69
Leicestershire 71 67 65 59 56
Lincolnshire 77 69 73 70 74
City of London 67 67 59 66 64
Merseyside 66 64 60 63 59
Metropolitan Police 79 73 70 62 63
Norfolk 84 82 84 83 86
Northamptonshire 67 64 60 59 57
Northumbria 70 65 64 63 60
North Yorkshire 74 68 66 68 68
Nottinghamshire 68 61 61 59 57
South Yorkshire 74 71 67 67 65
Staffordshire 65 65 62 60 60
Suffolk 75 72 68 69 68
Surrey 69 67 62 62 61
Sussex 73 69 69 66 66
Thames Valley 71 65 64 62 59
Warwickshire 82 77 68 66 65
West Mercia 74 74 69 67 65
West Midlands 70 65 59 60 60
West Yorkshire 73 69 63 61 59
Wiltshire 74 71 70 70 68
Dyfed Powys 67 65 62 61 55
Gwent 66 65 67 61 64
North Wales 79 79 66 67 67
South Wales 67 66 61 62 61
England and Wales 73 69 66 64 63