§ Sir Irvine PatnickTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for(a) West Yorkshire, (b) West Midlands, (c) Tyne and Wear, (d) Greater Manchester, (e) South Yorkshire and (f) Merseyside in 1994–95 and 1995–96 (i) the crime figures and (ii) the detection rate by category of crime. [14809]
§ Mr. MacleanThe available information is contained in the following table:
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Notifiable offences recorded by the police and clear ups Offence group Number of offences Percentage cleared up1,2 1994–95 1995–96 1994 1995 West Yorkshire Violence against the Person 8,997 8,520 81 82 Sexual offences 1,387 1,530 84 93 Robbery 2,910 3,497 28 25 Burglary 86,332 91,389 15 16 Theft and handling stolen Goods 131,233 128,306 18 19 Fraud and forgery 5,411 4,876 57 55 Criminal damage 44,795 45,691 12 13 Other offences 2,766 2,948 100 100 Total 283,831 286,757 20 21 West Midlands Violence against the person 9,714 8,528 70 66 Sexual offences 1,325 1,148 71 66 Robbery 87,571 8,081 19 18 Burglary 7,201 91,842 27 30 Theft and handling stolen goods 140,812 152,187 23 21 Fraud and forgery 7,892 7,573 31 27 Criminal damage 52,605 54,329 13 11 Other offences 1,866 1,973 95 94 Total 308,986 325,661 25 24 Northumbria (including Tyne and Wear) Violence against the person 6,111 5,482 74 73 Sexual offences 702 545 77 75 Robbery 1,234 1,653 23 26 Burglary 55,398 51,513 14 14 Theft and handling stolen goods 81,073 77,275 24 25 estimated breakdown of the years in which those asylum applications awaiting an initial decision were made, in total and for the nationalities requested, is given in the table.
Notifiable offences recorded by the police and clear ups Offence group Number of offences Percentage cleared up1,2 1994–95 1995–96 1994 1995 Fraud and forgery 2,935 2,447 44 43 Criminal damage 51,381 51,256 16 17 Other offences 995 1,060 98 100 Total 199,829 191,231 22 23 Greater Manchester Violence against the person 8,609 9,610 74 70 Sexual offences 1,192 1,369 74 73 Robbery 5,229 5,938 29 22 Burglary 89,092 86,474 32 19 Theft and handling stolen goods 152,603 149,500 33 23 Fraud and forgery 7,726 5,853 70 48 Criminal damage 65,339 70,384 19 16 Other offences 2,544 2,761 98 97 Total 332,334 331,889 34 24 South Yorkshire Violence against the person 4,957 4,842 82 81 Sexual offences 647 634 88 81 Robbery 1,004 1,266 31 27 Burglary 48,084 46,555 20 22 Theft and handling stolen goods 69,827 72,610 23 22 Fraud and forgery 2,876 2,557 40 35 Criminal damage 25,084 28,441 16 15 Other offences 1,345 1,203 99 100 Total 153,824 158,108 24 24 Merseyside Violence against the person 7,726 8,162 63 67 Sexual offences 857 889 77 82 Robbery 2,090 3,103 17 20 Burglary 32,927 33,948 27 19 Theft and handling stolen goods 67,372 75,960 35 26 Fraud and forgery 3,044 4,687 70 64 Criminal damage 23,033 27,055 18 15 Other offences 1,740 2,109 96 99 Total 138,789 155,913 33 27 1 Excluding criminal damage value £20 and under. 2 Published on a calendar year basis only.