To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were (a) recorded and (b) reported but unrecorded relating to (i) vandalism, (ii) theft from vehicles, (iii) burglary, (iv) wounding, (v) theft of vehicles, (vi) theft from persons, (vii) robbery and (viii) theft from homes, in each poke authority area in Wales for every year between 1979 to 1990.

Information available to the Home Office is for recorded crimes—notifiable offences—only and tables are published for police force areas for Wales in table 32 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales" for the year 1979: for 1980 to 1989 in "Criminal Statistics England and Wales Supplementary Volume 3", table 3.1. Copies of these publications are in the Library, as are tables for 1990. Information about crime reported to the police but not recorded by them is not collected centrally. There is no specific offence of vandalism, but criminal damage is usually regarded as covering this type of offence.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of total crimes was accounted for by (a) burglary, (b) robbery, (c) criminal damage, (d) fraud and forgery, (e) sexual offences, (f) violence against the person, (g) theft and (h) other offences, in each police authority area in Wales for every year between 1979 to 1990.

Information for the years 1988–90 is contained in the table. Information for earlier years could be provided only at disproportionate cost.