asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report the number of burglaries for each year since 1979 to the latest available date in Thurrock, indicating in each year the clear-up rate for burglaries in Thurrock.

The information collected centrally relates to police force areas. Numbers of burglaries recorded in each police force area are published each year in the Command Paper "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—table 2·5 of the issue for 1986, Cmnd. 10—and most recently in table 6 of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin issue number 4/87. Clear-up rates for offences of burglary recorded by the Essex police are given in the following table: