The statistics are not available in the form requested. Recorded burglary statistics relate to offences and convictions data relate to offenders. In addition, recorded crime data are published on a financial year basis and conviction data are published on a calendar year basis. For these reasons, the two data sources are therefore not directly comparable.
Figures for burglary offences recorded by the police are published in Table 2.04 of “Crime in England and Wales 2005/06” and can be accessed at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/hosb1206chap2a.xls
Data on the number of defendants found guilty of burglary, for the years 1997 to 2005 in England and Wales, have been provided by the Ministry of Justice and are given in the following table. Information for 2006 will be available in the autumn.
Number 1997 31,703 1998 30,769 1999 29,261 2000 26,222 2001 24,802 2002 26,691 2003 25,726 2004 24,252 2005 22,951 1 These data are on the principal offence basis. 2 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces and courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. 3 Staffordshire police force were only able to supply a sample of data for magistrates’ courts proceedings covering one full week in each quarter for 2000. Estimates based on this sample are included in the figures, as they are considered sufficiently robust at this high level of analysis. Source: RDS—Office for Criminal Justice Reform, Ministry of Justice.