HC Deb 05 February 2001 vol 362 cc436-7W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many mobile phones were stolen in the Metropolitan police area last year(a) during burglaries and (b) in motor vehicle crime. [148217]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The Metropolitan police force did not identify, before December 2000, the theft of mobile telephones separately from all telephone equipment, including fax machines, earphones and answer phones etc.

The approximate proportion of offences in the Metropolitan police area where telephone equipment was stolen is shown in the table. The proportions are not exact as the number of telephone equipment items stolen does not correspond exactly to the number of offences where telephone equipment was stolen. For example, a burglary where two telephones were stolen will yield one offence of burglary and two items of equipment stolen.

Year Number
1991 45,900
1992 45,800
1993 44,600
1994 48,800
1995 51,000
1996 55,300
1997 61,100
1998 65,300
1999 64,800
2000 64,000

Source

Prison Statistics England and Wales 1999,Cm4805,

The population on the latest date available (1 February 2001) was 63,620.The following is the latest prison population projection, in each of the next five years.

Year Number
2001 64,200
2002 65,900
2003 67,800
2004 69,200
2005 70,300

source

prison population Brief, England and Wales November 2000;http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/whatsnew1.html.

Offenders prosecuted at the magistrates court, convicted at all courts and the conviction rate for certain offences, England and Wales, 1990–991
All offences2 Violent crime3 Property crime4
Year Prosecutions (thousand) Convictions (thousand) Conviction rate (percentage) Prosecutions (thousand) Convictions (thousand) Conviction rate (percentage) Prosecutions (thousand) Convictions (thousand) Conviction rate (percentage)
1990 1,969.3 1,562.7 79.4 126.0 81.2 64.5 280.7 213.6 76.1
1991 1,984.5 1,519.9 76.6 124.7 74.0 59.4 296.2 214.1 72.3
1992 2,047.0 1,528.4 74.7 128.7 71.7 55.7 291.3 205.0 70.4
1993 1,956.3 1,425.3 72.9 127.0 67.3 53.0 278.0 191.9 69.0
1994 1,969.7 1,424.6 72.3 132.9 68.9 51.8 278.6 191.2 68.6
1995 1,927.5 1,429.7 74.2 124.5 68.3 54.8 258.1 181.1 70.2
1996 1,923.0 1,440.8 74.9 129.2 70.3 54.4 251.1 175.5 69.9
1997 1,855.3 1,385.8 74.7 138.4 76.7 55.4 254.0 180.2 71.0
1998 1,951.9 1,469.7 75.3 148.8 82.5 55.4 261.7 189.9 72.6
1999 1,883.6 1,409.7 74.8 153.8 83.1 54.0 266.0 194.5 73.1
1Includes allowances for known shortfalls in the data. It is not possible to produce estimates for the more detailed offence categories.
2Taken as all indictable, summary non-motoring and summary motoring offences.
3Includes the indictable offence groups of violence against the person, sexual offences and robbery and the summary offences of assault.
4Includes the indictable offence groups of burglary, theft and handling stolen goods, fraud and forgery and criminal damage and the summary offence of interference with motor vehicles.