§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of recorded offences of(a) burglary in a dwelling, (b) burglary elsewhere, (c) theft of a vehicle or taking and driving away and (d) theft from a vehicle in each police force area of England and Wales in the year to June 1996. [2235]
§ Mr. MacleanThe information requested is given in the following table.
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Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force area 12 months to June 1996 Police force area Burglary in a dwelling Burglary other than a dwelling Theft of a vehicle1 Theft from a vehicle Avon and Somerset 17,881 16,167 16,548 31,688 Bedfordshire 5,358 5,363 6,141 10,473 Cambridgeshire 6,443 8,042 7,638 14,119 Cheshire 7,808 8,698 6,488 10,006 Cleveland 12,604 10,721 8,795 11,847 Cumbria 4,101 4,816 2,309 6,792 Derbyshire 8,117 11,349 9,451 14,248 Devon and Cornwall 12,630 13,463 6,035 19,358 Dorset 6,023 5,588 3,607 9,527 Durham 6,078 7,277 6,189 6,914 Essex 7,992 11,316 9,071 16,802 Gloucestershire 6,865 6,074 4,145 12,154 Greater Manchester 50,936 35,853 46,742 48,638 Hampshire 11,089 13,601 8,749 26,699 Hertfordshire 4,519 6,446 5,839 12,886 Humberside 16,594 22,104 11,787 18,651 Kent 15,332 18,770 16,278 24,443 Lancashire 17,647 12,977 9,109 22,275 Leicestershire 13,597 12,143 9,979 16,358 Lincolnshire 5,210 6,906 3,377 5,934 City of London 31 556 114 513 Merseyside 20,133 12,158 19,009 18,423 Metropolitan Police 100,497 65,069 57,871 110,810 Norfolk 5,013 7,416 3,464 8,194 Northamptonshire 7,126 6,803 6,495 9,122 Northumbria 24,250 24,423 19,977 21,927 North Yorkshire 7,146 8,831 5,346 9,587 Nottinghamshire 18,147 17,367 15,161 18,891 South Yorkshire 23,559 22,483 23,016 24,052 Staffordshire 12,380 12,246 9,058 13,941 Suffolk 2,790 4,021 2,140 5,113 Surrey 3,922 4,873 2,787 8,154 Sussex 11,582 10,626 7,069 19,417 Thames Valley 19,301 18,708 18,088 38,274
Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force area 12 months to June 1996 Police force area Burglary in a dwelling Burglary other than a dwelling Theft of a vehicle1 Theft from a vehicle Warwickshire 3,748 5,210 4,207 7,283 West Mercia 6,996 7,719 7,143 15,464 West Midlands 47,621 45,147 48,140 52,862 West Yorkshire 54,257 35,007 33,846 42,419 Wiltshire 3,586 3,933 1,907 5,995 Dyfed-Powys 1,296 2,086 999 2,043 Gwent 3,311 4,202 3,172 5,823 North Wales 3,429 5,902 2,267 7,147 South Wales 13,974 20,457 22,104 24,340 England and Wales 630,919 582,917 511,657 809,606 1Includes aggravated vehicle taking and unauthorised taking of a vehicle.