asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the latest figures for the number of unsolved burglaries in the latest year for which figures are available in the Metropolitan area of Greater London.

The estimated number of offences of burglary recorded by the Metropolitan police in 1985 but not cleared up was 139,000. Since an offence may be recorded and cleared up in different years, it is not possible to give an exact figure. Numbers of notifiable offences recorded and cleared up in each offence category are published annually in the report of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (appendix 4ii of the issue for 1985, Cmnd. 9790).