To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide a table for recorded crime in Scotland comparable with that provided on 30 October 1990, Official Report, columns 477–80, on crime statistics in Strathclyde.

The information is available from Scottish Office Home and Health Department statistical bulletins. Information for the years 1980 to 1989 is published in the bulletin entitled "Recorded Crime in Scotland, 1989", and for the year 1979 is published in "Recorded Crime in Scotland, 1988". Copies of these bulletins are in the Library.