To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what priorities he has set for reducing crime in the Macclesfield borough in the Cheshire constabulary east division; and if he will make a statement. (134404)

A target has been agreed with the Macclesfield CDRP for a reduction in British Crime Survey comparator crime of 15 per cent. between 2003-04 and 2007-08. It is for the local area to set specific crime type priorities within that overall target.