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<p>The Home Office collects information on the length of time it takes to assign an outcome, including an outcome of charge/summons, for offences recorded by the police in England and Wales.</p><p>Information on the median number of days taken to assign a charge/summons outcome, broken down by offence group (including theft offences), are published ‘Crime outcomes in England and Wales’ since March 2018 in table 4.3 here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics</a></p><p>For the year ending December 2022, the Crime Survey for England and Wales shows the number of Theft offences down 47% when compared with the year ending March 2010, to 2.6 million incidents.</p><p> </p> |