To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of crimes committed have been identified as having drug and alcohol abuse as a (a) primary and (b) contributory factor, broken down by category of crime; and if she will make a statement. (151992)

The information requested is not available centrally from the recorded crime statistics. It is not possible to identify whether alcohol or drug abuse are contributory factors since the circumstances of individual crimes are not collected in the statistics.