§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish figures for the 12 months ending September 1998 on the(a) number of notifiable offences by police force area and by category of offence; and (b) percentages of notifiable offences in individual offence groups by police force area. [106531]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeIt has not been possible to estimate totals for categories of offences at the police force level for the year ending September 1998 because of the change to new Home Office counting rules for recorded crime half way through the period.