To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will set out the total number of (a) crimes, (b) assaults on staff, (c) assaults on passengers, (d) indecent assaults, (e) rapes and (f) violent robberies which have occurred on London Underground, (i) in each month since April 1989 and (ii) in each year since 1971.
I understand from London Underground that the information is as follows:
Year
| All crimes
| Assaults on staff
| Assaults on passengers
| Indecent assaults
| Rape
| Robberies
|
| 1971 | 4,918 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1972 | 7.766 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1973 | 8,163 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1974 | 11,410 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1975 | 10,557 | — | 1383 | 78 | — | 144 |
| 1976 | 10,189 | — | 1254 | 60 | — | 118 |
| 1977 | 11,692 | — | 1335 | 56 | — | 173 |
| 1978 | 12,342 | — | 1373 | 67 | — | 207 |
| 1979 | 16,562 | — | 1578 | 65 | — | 222 |
| 1980 | 16,150 | — | 1519 | 71 | — | 307 |
| 1981 | 18,614 | — | 1480 | 105 | — | 402 |
| 1982 | 14,937 | — | 1535 | 115 | — | 453 |
| 1983 | 15,073 | — | 1599 | 101 | — | 361 |
| 1984 | 15,552 | — | 1747 | 87 | — | 606 |
| 1985 | 15,979 | — | 1837 | 87 | — | 694 |
| 1986 | 16,217 | — | 11,014 | 160 | — | 685 |
| 1987 | 19,136 | — | 11,045 | 182 | — | 883 |
| 1988 | 16,387 | — | 11,165 | 194 | — | 1,128 |
| 1989 | 15,583 | 135 | 673 | 300 | 4 | 476 |
| 1990 | 15,645 | 140 | 569 | 275 | 2 | 587 |
| 1991 | 15,292 | 138 | 474 | 214 | 3 | 563 |
1 Reported as violence against the person. | ||||||
n/a = Not avaiable.
The statistics for assaults on passengers between 1975 and 1988 also include assaults on staff. The same situation applies to indecent assaults and rapes. The statistics for robberies cover instances where only threats were used as well as cases of violence.