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Mr. Gray
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the level of recorded crime in each police area in England and Wales in each year since 1992. [11163]
Mr. Michael
[holding answer 29 July 1997]: Information by police force area on the levels of crime in terms of numbers and percentages since 1992 is given in the table.
| Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force area | |||||||||
| England and Wales 1992–1996 | |||||||||
| Police force area | Number of offences | Percentage change | |||||||
| 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1992–93 | 1993–94 | 1994–95 | 1995–96 | |
| Avon and Somerset | 175,404 | 175,946 | 167,975 | 152,886 | 156,557 | 0 | -5 | -9 | 2 |
| Bedfordshire | 59,436 | 58,847 | 52,501 | 51,104 | 52,005 | -1 | -11 | -3 | 2 |
| Cambridgeshire | 66,339 | 65,807 | 61,732 | 67,652 | 69,532 | -1 | -6 | +10 | 3 |
| Cheshire | 79,491 | 80,156 | 74,926 | 73,202 | 66,214 | +1 | -7 | -2 | -10 |
| Cleveland | 84,312 | 78,279 | 81,732 | 79,719 | 78,608 | -7 | +4 | -2 | -1 |
| Cumbria | 45,336 | 43,744 | 42,492 | 41,230 | 39,739 | -4 | -3 | -3 | -4 |
| Derbyshire | 88,449 | 91,454 | 85,915 | 82,380 | 78,896 | +3 | -6 | -4 | -4 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 114,675 | 121,026 | 109,396 | 102,193 | 103,121 | +6 | -10 | -7 | 1 |
| Dorset | 52,238 | 52,091 | 55,415 | 54,582 | 49,731 | 0 | +6 | -2 | -9 |
| Durham | 67,315 | 67,180 | 65,029 | 57,817 | 51,849 | 0 | -3 | -11 | -10 |
| Essex | 115,062 | 114,435 | 105,995 | 98,097 | 100,758 | -1 | -7 | -7 | 3 |
| Gloucestershire | 60,601 | 60,985 | 60,371 | 55,448 | 53,675 | +1 | -1 | -8 | -3 |
| Greater Manchester | 395,195 | 364,858 | 338,110 | 327,994 | 327,976 | -8 | -7 | -3 | 0 |
| Hampshire | 153,256 | 147,074 | 141,272 | 134,319 | 135,915 | -4 | -4 | -5 | 1 |
| Hertfordshire | 59,129 | 56,868 | 54,887 | 55,891 | 54,441 | -4 | -3 | +2 | -3 |
| Humberside | 128,743 | 140,988 | 135,826 | 128,393 | 126,932 | +10 | -4 | -5 | -1 |
| Kent | 159,881 | 161,787 | 155,344 | 155,251 | 147,980 | +1 | -4 | 0 | -5 |
| Lancashire | 132,138 | 134,581 | 127,300 | 124,921 | 122,487 | +2 | -5 | -2 | -2 |
| Leicestershire | 97,468 | 99,863 | 99,150 | 93,607 | 94,125 | +2 | -1 | -6 | 1 |
| Lincolnshire | 49,306 | 52,664 | 47,767 | 48,015 | 47,077 | +7 | -9 | +1 | -2 |
| London, City of | 6,768 | 5,620 | 5,272 | 5,727 | 4,831 | -17 | -6 | +9 | -16 |
| Merseyside | 149,672 | 142,325 | 136,825 | 153,385 | 145,956 | -5 | -4 | +12 | -5 |
| Metropolitan Police | 942,876 | 910,209 | 853,478 | 817,082 | 841,784 | -3 | -6 | -4 | 3 |
| Norfolk | 66,996 | 64,319 | 56,075 | 51,716 | 55,314 | -4 | -13 | -8 | 7 |
| Northamptonshire | 59,550 | 59,850 | 57,607 | 56,524 | 57,378 | +1 | -4 | -2 | 2 |
| Northumbria | 224,442 | 213,936 | 204,057 | 194,141 | 169,656 | -5 | -5 | -5 | -13 |
| North Yorkshire | 54,816 | 57,967 | 62,153 | 63,539 | 56,919 | +6 | +7 | +2 | -10 |
| Nottinghamshire | 164,417 | 158,960 | 152,592 | 151,371 | 141,307 | -3 | -4 | -1 | -7 |
| South Yorkshire | 137,336 | 157,229 | 157,089 | 154,293 | 151,577 | +14 | +0 | -2 | -2 |
| Staffordshire | 97,536 | 98,421 | 93,757 | 91,495 | 92,155 | +1 | -5 | -2 | 1 |
| Suffolk | 44,721 | 43,138 | 39,393 | 38,233 | 37,094 | -4 | -9 | -3 | -3 |
| Surrey | 53,468 | 52,504 | 46,783 | 44,313 | 42,014 | -2 | -11 | -5 | -5 |
| Sussex | 119,364 | 111,876 | 107,105 | 110,300 | 118,086 | -6 | -4 | +3 | 7 |
| Thames Valley | 197,799 | 200,356 | 186,268 | 178,702 | 172,194 | +1 | -7 | -4 | -4 |
| Warwickshire | 44,996 | 45,522 | 42,592 | 38,906 | 38,926 | +1 | -6 | -9 | 0 |
| West Mercia | 79,175 | 82,832 | 83,949 | 80,013 | 82,254 | +5 | +1 | -5 | 3 |
| West Midlands | 329,260 | 330,091 | 315,755 | 318,087 | 317,892 | 0 | -4 | +1 | 0 |
| West Yorkshire | 305,264 | 301,838 | 289,716 | 283,938 | 268,716 | -1 | -4 | -2 | -5 |
| Wiltshire | 42,229 | 41,611 | 38,147 | 36,428 | 35,911 | -1 | -8 | -5 | -1 |
| England | 5,304,459 | 5,247,237 | 4,991,748 | 4,852,894 | 4,787,582 | -1 | -5 | -3 | -1 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 28,539 | 24,743 | 21,602 | 19,419 | 19,072 | -13 | -13 | -10 | -2 |
| Gwent | 40,961 | 40,008 | 38,431 | 33,034 | 44,572 | -2 | -4 | -14 | 35 |
| North Wales | 49,204 | 48,102 | 43,451 | 41,645 | 41,024 | -2 | -10 | -4 | -1 |
| South Wales | 168,554 | 166,165 | 157,748 | 153,249 | 141,578 | -1 | -5 | -3 | -8 |
| Wales | 287,258 | 279,018 | 261,232 | 247,347 | 246,246 | -3 | -6 | -5 | 0 |
| England and Wales | 5,591,717 | 5,526,255 | 5,252,980 | 5,100,241 | 5,033,828 | -1 | -5 | -3 | -1 |