§ Mr. BettsTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister what plans he has to include measures of(a) the state of the physical environment and (b) crime and disorder in revised indices of deprivation; and what methodology will be used to measure these. [146108]
§ Yvette CooperIt is proposed that the revised Indices of Deprivation 2000 (ID 2000) should include new domains to cover the living environment and crime and disorder.
For the Living Environment domain, indicators have been proposed to cover both the quality of the 'indoors' living environment and the 'outdoors' physical environment. In respect of the latter, the two indicators proposed are:
'Air quality' based on data held on the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory; and'Road Traffic Accidents involving injury to pedestrians and cyclists' based on data available from the Department of Transport's STAT19 database. This data will provide an indictor of the risk of injury to non-motorised road users.The purpose of the Crime domain is to measure the incidence of recorded crime, representing the occurrence of personal and material victimisation at a small area level. It is proposed that four composite indicators are constructed (burglary, theft, criminal damage and violence) covering some 33 different categories of recorded crime. These indicators will be constructed either using full recorded crime data from the 39 geographic regional police forces or if this is not possible, full recorded crime data for the majority of the police forces but modelled crime data for the areas that are unable to provide recorded crime data.