HC Deb 14 November 2000 vol 356 cc640-3W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions there were in each police force area in(a) 1979, (b) 1987, (c) 1992, (d) 1997 and (e) in each following year up to the latest date for which figures are available. [137859]

Mr. Charles Clarke

Information for 1979 to 1998 can be found in the following annual publications: Tables 3A and 7A of Criminal statistics England and Wales 1979 (Command Paper 8098).

Tables S3.2(A) and S3.4(A) of Criminal statistics England and Wales 1987, 1992, 1997 and 1998 Supplementary tables Volume 3.

Copies of these publications are in the Library.

Copies of tables providing data for 1999 have also been placed in the Library. The Command Paper Criminal statistics England and Wales 1999, along with its Supplementary tables, Volumes 1 to 4, will be published next month.

Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) violent crimes and (b) total recorded crimes there were in each police force area in (i) 1979, (ii) 1987, (iii) 1992, (iv) 1997 and (v) in each following year up to the latest date for which figures are available. [137858]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The requested data are shown in the following tables. The violent crime figures are the total of violence against the person offences, sexual offences and robbery.

The figures before and after 1 April 1998 cannot be directly compared. This is because the Counting Rules for recorded crime were changed on 1 April 1998, with an expanded coverage of offences and the emphasis more on measurement of one crime per victim. All offences that are triable on indictment and triable either-way have been counted since this date, as are some summary offences which are closely linked to more serious offences. The change increased the overall count in England and Wales of the offence groups of violence against the person, sexual offences and robbery by 118 per cent., 4 per cent. and 1 per cent. respectively. More details of the change in counting rules can be found in Home Office Statistical Bulletin 18/99, entitled "Recorded Crime Statistics England and Wales April 1998 to March 1999", which is in the Library.

Recorded crime—total violent crime
Police force area 1979 1987 1992 1997 1997–98 1998–991 1999–20001
Avon and Somerset 2,661 4,766 7,057 12,176 13,219 14,985 16,061
Bedfordshire 1,846 2,421 2,759 4,516 4,476 5,668 6,121
Cambridgeshire 1,324 1,981 3,505 4,104 4,202 6,213 7,056
Cheshire 1,785 2,692 3,563 4,584 4,733 7,623 6,645
Cleveland 1,720 2,677 3,208 3,397 3,432 4,237 4,278
Cumbria 908 1,584 2,213 3,158 3,378 5,901 5,456
Derbyshire 2,410 3,001 4,736 6,264 6,692 9,569 11,149
Devon and Cornwall 2,645 3,695 4,901 7,746 7,828 13,096 13,902
Dorset 911 1,433 2,014 2,540 2,583 3,325 4,034
Durham 1,558 2,467 3,012 2,407 2,408 5,370 5,884
Essex 2,818 4,093 5,484 5,781 6,016 9,443 11,480
Gloucestershire 737 1,272 2,183 2,065 2,121 3,847 4,854
Greater Manchester 6,696 10,873 15,847 21,802 25,275 45,615 51,076
Hampshire 3,380 4,750 6,971 9,710 9,761 14,253 17,494
Hertfordshire 1,550 2,182 2,525 2,890 2,995 3,884 4,471
Humberside 3,382 5,980 6,142 7,758 7,741 10,947 10,752
Kent 2,633 3,865 7,441 8,924 8,666 14,045 14,683
Lancashire 2,654 3,757 4,146 5,550 5,718 12,183 11,615
Leicestershire 1,816 2,975 4,913 6,856 6,971 11,715 12,976
Lincolnshire 1,206 1,859 2,664 3,487 3,548 4,781 4,369
City of London 225 281 321 241 255 570 595
Merseyside 5,162 7,291 9,875 11,130 11,399 15,711 18,237
Metropolitan Police 24,995 44,537 67,098 87,393 84,344 165,981 202,386
Norfolk 1,064 1,741 2,429 3,565 3,570 6,189 7,094
Northamptonshire 1,386 2,374 3,054 3,688 3,730 5,995 5,896
Northumbria 4,172 5,811 8,178 6,503 6,584 14,767 15,935
North Yorkshire 1,182 1,713 2,276 2,885 2,930 5,294 5,607
Nottinghamshire 5,079 7,582 10,462 10,247 10,238 14,312 16,384
South Yorkshire 3,824 5,171 6,205 6,155 6,088 8,210 9,372
Staffordshire 3,421 4,705 6,289 8,178 8,373 11,188 14,640
Suffolk 1,178 1,897 2,612 2,989 3,105 4,365 5,915
Surrey 1,453 2,023 2,644 3,061 3,447 4,914 6,099
Sussex 2,693 3,425 4,521 7,561 7,482 16,613 18,947
Thames Valley 3,142 5,370 6,618 8,589 8,557 12,990 16,531
Warwickshire 769 1,080 1,640 1,637 1,712 2,427 2,581
West Mercia 2,112 2,920 4,180 4,213 4,080 7,964 9,157
West Midlands 8,337 11,910 18,228 17,833 19,286 40,319 55,026
West Yorkshire 6,703 8,940 13,727 12,518 12,677 21,529 22,632
Wiltshire 1,065 1,959 3,180 2,892 3,063 4,989 5,135
Dyfed-Powys 773 1,310 2,626 2,503 2,511 5,039 5,839
Gwent 1,330 1,980 2,845 6,139 6,131 11,980 14,493
North Wales 1,516 2,335 3,060 3,167 3,310 5,164 6,258
South Wales 3,064 4,151 6,847 8,262 8,238 12,587 13,990
England and Wales 129,285 198,829 284,199 347,064 352,873 605,797 703,105
1 The counting rules for recorded crime were revised on 1 April 1998

Recorded crime—all offences
Police force area 1979 1987 1992 1997 1997–98 1998–991 1998–19922 1999–20022
Avon and Somerset 51,333 100,823 175,404 143,128 144,556 131,955 150,089 147,104
Bedfordshire 28,097 40,707 59,436 47,426 45,250 43,947 49,076 53,607
Cambridgeshire 24,645 34,097 66,339 60,050 58,864 59,678 67,256 68,722
Cheshire 30,396 51,376 79,491 60,363 60,716 59,414 65,119 64,528
Cleveland 34,846 60,236 84,312 64,445 63,634 63,726 67,030 65,185
Cumbria 19,531 28,655 45,336 35,810 35,777 35,171 40,202 37,729
Derbyshire 38,640 46,722 88,449 73,792 74,436 74,047 84,459 85,650
Devon and Cornwall 43,480 74,495 114,675 94,828 92,800 88,484 110,644 110,361
Dorset 23,260 38,663 52,238 44,104 43,536 43,903 52,755 52,332
Durham 27,351 45,023 67,315 47,976 47,311 44,178 50,413 48,796
Essex 54,060 75,419 115,062 90,158 89,380 87,147 95,797 102,777
Gloucestershire 16,589 33,997 60,601 47,533 46,044 44,000 48,206 50,993
Greater Manchester 169,749 318,869 395,195 307,403 315,000 336,172 362,450 377,086
Hampshire 66,910 99,649 153,256 124,306 121,042 115,008 128,253 135,174
Hertfordshire 38,801 42,769 59,129 50,050 49,426 46,255 49,309 52,741
Humberside 48,195 88,570 128,743 121,330 123,722 119,290 130,691 121,442
Kent 55,370 78,629 159,881 122,955 118,892 110,244 129,340 124,918
Lancashire 57,105 94,117 132,138 119,755 116,947 105,161 118,085 108,866
Leicestershire 30,351 50,900 97,468 81,259 81,183 81,714 93,397 94,577
Lincolnshire 17,539 34,729 49,306 43,381 41,792 39,718 46,670 46,170
City of London 6,809 7,524 6,768 5,130 5,137 6,035 7,144 7,775
Merseyside 108,433 166,513 149,672 125,979 125,312 130,606 140,874 148,172
Metropolitan Police 557,378 737,151 942,876 791,732 778,279 767,880 934,254 1,052,047
Norfolk 22,655 41,575 66,996 53,332 52,580 51,167 57,129 59,387

Recorded crime—all offences
Police force area 1979 1987 1992 1997 1997–98 1998–991 1998–992 1999–20002
Northamptonshire 22,966 39,926 59,550 54,047 53,645 55,842 65,466 61,240
Northumbria 99,512 172,057 224,442 140,166 134,457 132,588 151,298 142,279
North Yorkshire 21,887 37,494 54,816 50,252 50,297 48,372 55,309 53,554
Nottinghamshire 72,659 97,957 164,417 128,015 125,097 123,680 135,255 136,875
South Yorkshire 56,340 95,372 137,336 130,960 125,907 124,427 133,059 131,700
Staffordshire 37,952 57,766 97,536 89,957 89,820 84,495 91,919 98,852
Suffolk 20,152 31,656 44,721 35,639 35,262 34,280 39,908 43,355
Surrey 26,965 32,971 53,468 38,440 38,015 36,376 42,467 46,288
Sussex 48,609 66,976 119,364 111,624 110,320 111,468 130,402 136,566
Thames Valley 75,740 117,823 197,799 157,423 154,014 161,646 176,477 191,875
Warwickshire 13,986 25,213 44,996 35,725 35,604 35,659 38,485 38,593
West Mercia 35,088 52,658 79,175 76,762 75,330 69,451 81,782 84,797
West Midlands 156,671 266,799 329,260 278,975 277,970 276,512 314,628 364,887
West Yorkshire 128,675 184,049 305,264 244,142 242,646 246,438 273,809 260,237
Wiltshire 20,545 27,471 42,229 33,039 32,831 32,984 38,189 38,461
Dyfed-Powys 11,752 18,655 28,539 18,098 17,994 17,858 24,588 23,709
Gwent 20,498 27,093 40,961 47,268 47,043 47,381 58,738 60,132
North Wales 23,589 37,415 49,204 40,684 38,658 36,570 43,848 44,606
South Wales 71,628 111,642 168,554 130,886 128,811 120,890 134,820 127,040
England and Wales 2,536,737 3,892,201 5,591,717 4,598,327 4,545,337 4,481,817 5,109,089 5,301,185
1 Estimate of total for year if counting rules in force up to 31 March 1998 had been used
2 Using the counting rules for recorded crime which came in on 1 April 1998.