§ Mrs. MayTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the number of recorded offences for(a) begging, (b) breaching an antisocial behaviour order, (c) vagrancy, (d) noise, (e) drunkenness, (f) drunkenness with aggravation, (g) aggravated vehicle 603W taking, (h) rowdy and disorderly group behaviour in public and (i) driving while having a breath/urine/blood alcohol concentration in excess of the prescribed limit, broken down by police force area, in each year since 1997. [49787]
§ Mr. Denham[holding answer 15 April 2002]: With the exception of aggravated vehicle taking, the categories mentioned are not collected centrally, or not collected separately, for recorded crime figures. The details for aggravated vehicle taking are given in the table.
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Recorded crime—offences of aggravated vehicle taking by police force area since 19971 Police force 19972 1998–993 1999–20003 2000–013 Avon and Somerset 61 30 40 19 Bedfordshire 31 53 67 59 Cambridgeshire 32 100 170 158 Cheshire 126 149 170 141 Cleveland 205 197 165 163 Cumbria 63 128 139 124 Derbyshire 215 226 225 189 Devon and Cornwall 138 174 262 269 Dorset 124 148 184 206 Durham 118 114 116 94 Essex4 167 111 21 54 Gloucestershire 133 77 71 64 Greater Manchester 626 1,122 1,190 1,312 Hampshire 120 188 229 244 Hertfordshire4 8 52 104 142 Humberside 270 338 276 276 Kent 157 191 187 158 Lancashire 220 265 301 318 Leicestershire 87 119 85 71 Lincolnshire 71 77 73 44 City of London 2 8 10 10 Merseyside 136 184 251 352 Metropolitan police district4 1,016 983 1,100 1,130 Norfolk 38 53 49 80 Northamptonshire 120> 161 154 137 Northumbria 158 270 280 316 North Yorkshire 76 109 69 93 Nottinghamshire 76 118 81 91 South Yorkshire 412 394 357 448 Staffordshire 171 241 174 159 Suffolk 65 67 82 104 Surrey4 27 60 131 149 Sussex 170 288 318 343 Thames Valley 203 148 175 171 Warwickshire 76 50 58 70 WestMercia 121 242 250 264 West Midlands 299 674 770 850 West Yorkshire 892 1,029 913 798 Wiltshire 73 89 128 114 Dyfed-Powys 90 129 109 110 Gwent 140 144 143 140 North Wales 109 182 135 151 South Wales 589 616 604 574 England and Wales 8,031 10,098 10,416 10,759 1 1997 is the calendar year, with the other years ending in March.
2 The number of crimes recorded in that financial year using the Coverage and rules in use until 31 March 1998.
3 The number of crimes recorded in that financial year using the expanded offence coverage and revised counting rules which came into effect on 1 April 1998.
4 There was a boundary change on 1 April 2000 in which parts of the Metropolitan police area were transferred to Essex, Hertfordshire and Surrey, So that these police force areas followed county boundaries thereafter.