Mr. Gareth ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how the level of street crime changed in(a) Harrow and (b) London between January and the end of August. [74580]
§ Mr. DenhamThe Home Office does not routinely publish monthly crime figures. Statistics collected by the Home Office and published on 14 October as part of the Street Crime Initiative show that street crime offences in the Metropolitan Police Area fell from 6,774 offences in the four weeks ending 30 January to 4,576 offences in the four weeks ending 28 August. This represents a reduction of 32 per cent. The definition of street crime is all robbery offences (commercial and personal) and snatch thefts.
The information on street crime figures at borough level is not published by the Home Office.
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