Recorded Crimes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded in each borough by the Metropolitan police within each category of crime in the year to June 1995; how many incidents of theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle and of theft from a motor vehicle were recorded in each borough; and how many of the burglaries recorded in each borough were (a) in a dwelling and (b) in another building. [37167]

The information requested has been supplied by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and is contained in the table. These figures have been revised since the publication of the recorded crime figures.

	Lambeth	Lewisham	Merton	Newham	Redbridge	Richmond	Southwark	Sutton	Tower Hamlets	Wandsworth
Total	36,505	30,281	14,998	28,103	18,891	12,742	39,799	11,060	24,100	31,196
Violence against the person	2,327	1,910	624	1,393	873	593	2,791	489	1,039	1,373
Sexual offences	319	327	72	257	119	71	298	154	197	278
Robbery	2,675	1,452	209	1,127	225	151	2,392	104	589	1,224
Burglary going equipped	7,219	7,067	3,168	5,962	4,096	3,100	8,342	2,673	5,114	5,621
Theft and handling stolen goods	15,527	12,699	6,637	12,809	9,210	5,859	17,421	4,913	11,761	15,086
Fraud and forgery	1,237	938	771	798	858	452	1,333	477	655	1,286
Criminal damage	6,778	5,387	3,392	5,533	3,359	2,388	6,750	2,172	4,509	5,797
Other	423	501	125	224	151	128	472	78	236	531
Theft of vehicle	1,616	1,771	591	2,331	1,959	338	1,886	576	1,307	1,273
Theft from vehicle	5,019	4,141	2,188	4,020	2.554	1,776	5,835	1,260	4,394	5,379
Burglary in a dwelling	5,495	5,120	1,926	3,410	2,556	1,869	5,554	1,639	2,236	3,857
Burglary in another building	1,660	1,917	1,226	2,529	1,512	1,218	2,717	1,021	2,833	1,726

	Waltham Forest	Westminster	Broxbourne(part)	Elmbridge(part)	Epping Forest(part)	Epsom and Well(part)	Hertmere	Reigate and Banstead(part)	Spelthorne	Welwym Halfield(part)
Total	20,622	59,273	4,069	4	3,598	6,933	4,796	2,629	6,526	53
Violence against the person	1,107	1,881	251	0	231	281	122	98	351	1
Sexual offences	156	279	9	0	14	50	32	6	40	0
Robbery	658	2,254	31	0	30	52	34	5	36	0
Burglary going equipped	4,522	7,433	717	0	644	1,905	802	547	1,292	17
Theft and handling stolen goods	9,395	38,332	2,011	3	1,740	2,720	2,407	1,187	2,942	22
Fraud and forge	745	3,049	98	0	136	231	172	95	550	1
Criminal damage	3,918	5,440	931	1	774	1,645	1,207	660	1,236	12
Other	121	605	21	0	29	49	20	31	79	0
Theft of vehicle	1,487	877	221	0	289	208	190	74	186	2
Theft from vehicle	2,367	4,792	796	1	521	904	993	572	1,123	10
Burglary in a dwelling	2,863	3,590	329	0	359	1,124	361	307	547	8
Burglary in another building	1,635	3,729	383	0	282	774	429	233	733	9

	Heathrow Airport	Thames	Central Cheque Squad	MPD Total
Total	4,503	157	880	833,818
Violence against the person	20	2	0	39,822
Sexual offences	7	0	0	6,390
Robbery	5	0	0	27,897
Burglary going equipped	43	14	0	171,912
Theft and handling stolen goods	3,339	107	39	393,231
Fraud and forgery	793	0	758	32,450
Criminal damage	186	34	72	154,404
Other	110	0	11	7,712
Theft of vehicle	64	4	0	39,803
Theft from vehicle	412	0	0	116,993
Burglary in a dwelling	1	4	0	108,187
Burglary in another building	39	10	0	62,63

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded by each police force in England and Wales within each category of crime in the year to June 1995; how many incidents of theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle and of theft from a motor vehicle were recorded

Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force area England and Wales—12 months to June 1995
Number of offences
	Avon and Somerset	Bedfordshire	Cambridgeshire	Cheshire	Cleveland	Cumbria	Derbyshire	Devon and Cornwall	Dorset	Durham
Total	158,815	50,815	63,569	74,753	82,866	41,318	82,439	104,044	55,193	61,398
Violence against the person	6,948	1.847	2,719	3,361	2,569	2,261	3,825	4,415	1,890	2,291

by each force; and how many of the burglaries recorded by each police force in England and Wales in the year to June 1995 were (a) in a dwelling and (b) in another building. [37166]

The information requested is contained in the following table.

Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force area England and Wales—12 months to June 1995
Number of offences
	Avon and Somerset	Bedfordshire	Cambridgeshire	Cheshire	Cleveland	Cambria	Derbyshire	Devon and Cornwall	Dorset	Durham
Sexual offences	995	384	373	573	222	231	514	819	338	474
Robbery	1,627	575	268	260	490	79	398	390	150	151
Burglary	36,126	11,854	14,359	18,621	21,166	9,852	21,074	27,755	11,129	14,171
Theft and handling stolen goods	86,586	26,684	35,103	35,233	41,287	19,467	38,417	52,887	30,429	29,395
Fraud and forgery	3,846	1,732	1,335	2,673	1,496	1,007	1,574	2,858	2,307	2,132
Criminal damage	21,723	7,283	8,997	12,467	15,019	8,055	15,870	13,631	8,195	11,988
Other	964	456	415	1,565	617	366	767	1,289	755	796
Theft of vehicle	19,145	6,491	6,251	6,962	11,972	2,414	8,601	6,158	3,687	7,305
Theft from vehicle	32,803	10,252	11,248	12,112	11,575	6,964	13,848	21,025	10,339	8,389
Burglary in a dwelling	17,809	5,440	6,413	8,879	12,606	4,171	8,652	13,757	6,438	7,735
Burglary in another building	18,317	6,414	7,946	9,742	8,560	5,681	12,422	13,998	4,691	6,436

	Essex	Gloucestershire	Greater Manchester	Hampshire	Hertfordshire	Humberside	Kent	Lancashire	Leicestershire	Lincolnshire
Total	101,687	57,455	327,504	135,683	56,063	128,628	153,800	123,192	95,917	46,458
Violence against the person	4,316	1,938	8,338	5,559	1,948	5,306	6,960	3,095	5,168	2,300
Sexual offences	559	379	1,142	1,028	274	688	1,008	533	589	370
Robbery	400	291	5,005	524	286	538	704	637	1,346	112
Burglary	21,418	14,308	87,071	26,130	11,618	40,644	29,760	27,776	25,852	11,792
Theft and handling stolen goods	53,627	30,906	150,247	72,861	29,916	58,868	81,150	60,467	45,483	21,724
Fraud and forgery	2,555	2,231	6,961	3,889	1,277	3,015	3,915	3,438	3,068	1,157
Criminal damage	17,926	6,709	66,090	24,135	10,328	18,894	28,695	25,985	13,752	8,329
Other	886	693	2,650	1,557	416	675	1,608	1,261	659	674
Theft of vehicle	8,290	3,945	45,883	9,146	5,342	12,176	16,618	9,711	10,169	3,449
Theft from vehicle	16,808	13,105	51,789	25,379	13,370	17,989	24,548	21,548	15,571	5,587
Burglary in a dwelling	8,643	6,920	52,044	11,105	4,237	18,369	15,315	17,514	14,722	5,883
Burglary in another building	12,775	7,388	35,027	15,025	7,381	22,275	14,445	10,262	11,130	5,909

	City of London	Merseyside	Metropolitan Police	Norfolk	Northamptonshire	Northumbria	North Yorkshire	Nottinghamshire	South Yorkshire	Staffordshire
Total	5,656	143,228	823,693	53,227	56,264	196,020	64,090	148,464	152,818	90,452
Violence against the person	125	7,771	41,264	2,045	2,513	5,890	2,000	7,630	4,976	6,097
Sexual offences	20	925	6,352	347	360	675	231	997	614	515
Robbery	29	2,216	27,712	209	281	1,307	171	1,324	1,071	464
Burglary	725	33,243	172,734	13,253	13,566	53,890	16,767	34,743	46,595	25,123
Theft and handling stolen goods	3,880	70,409	379,052	27,494	26,687	79,922	31,938	67,615	69,740	40,845
Fraud and forgery	436	2,984	32,516	1,427	1,390	2,960	1,004	3,587	2,812	2,059
Criminal damage	335	23,852	154,723	7,854	10,955	50,372	11,531	31,867	25,705	14,867
Other	106	1,828	9,340	598	512	1,004	448	701	1,305	482
Theft of vehicle	77	16,942	46,110	3,278	6,417	22,594	5,329	16,263	20,537	8,520
Theft from vehicle	630	17,425	117,875	8,956	8,869	22,565	11,203	18,612	23,804	15,847
Burglary in a dwelling	45	20,580	109,308	5,004	6,467	26,568	7,175	20,074	22,369	11,915
Burglary in another building	680	12,663	63,426	8,249	7,099	27,322	9,592	14,669	24,226	13,208

	Suffolk	Surrey	Sussex	Thames Valley	Warwickshire	West Mercia	West Midlands	West Yorkshire	Wiltshire	Dyfed-Powys
Total	38,061	45,055	108,349	182,351	39,809	81,949	307,291	280,196	37,249	20,220
Violence against the person	1,969	2,488	3,558	5,887	1,304	3,223	8,963	8,686	2,221	2,002
Sexual offences	339	458	710	808	230	478	1,219	1,367	348	265
Robbery	121	174	594	1,243	128	271	7,347	3,029	150	31
Burglary	7,235	9,607	23,872	38,121	9,857	16,298	86,582	86,586	8,247	3,482
Theft and handling stolen goods	18,919	23,218	56,973	102,118	20,636	44,161	141,664	128,295	18,525	8,683
Fraud and forgery	1,456	1,492	2,710	5,170	972	1,517	7,637	5,152	1,096	619
Criminal damage	7,350	6,937	18,649	27,374	6,353	15,302	52,087	44,287	6,124	4,607
Other	672	681	1,283	1,630	329	699	1,792	2,794	538	531
Theft of vehicle	1,996	3,228	6,599	19,215	4,501	7,284	41,280	32,499	2,401	1,031
Theft from vehicle	5,367	7,994	18,896	39,264	7,772	14,225	48,270	43,211	5,915	2,081
Burglary in a dwelling	2,925	4,333	13,111	20,806	4,161	7,762	44,969	54,112	4,012	1,367
Burglary in another building	4,310	5,274	10,761	17,315	5,696	8,536	41,613	32,474	4,235	2,115

	Gwent	North Wales	South Wales	England and Wales
Total	33,349	42,439	152,545	5,104,372
Violence against the person	2,453	2,405	6,192	208,716
Sexual offences	287	327	583	29,948
Robbery	97	78	464	62,742
Burglary	6,019	9,868	37,023	1,235,912
Theft and handling stolen goods	16,638	19,760	72,984	2,470,893
Fraud and forgery	1,050	1,153	3,438	137,103
Criminal damage	5,910	8,239	30,456	909,807
Other	895	609	1,405	49,251
Theft of vehicle	3,180	2,256	23,593	498,845
Theft from vehicle	4,697	6,837	24,782	819,346
Burglary in a dwelling	2,809	3,088	14,551	654,163
Burglary in another building	3,210	6,780	22,472	581,749

Volume 264: debated on Thursday 19 October 1995