Crime: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) violence against the person, (b) criminal damage and (c) drug related offences have been recorded in London since 2001. (178075)

The information requested is shown in the following table:

*Selected offences recorded by the police in London*¹
	Violence against the person	Criminal damage	Drug offences
2001-02	161,944	148,168	²26,673
2002-03	179,710	144,739	34,101
2003-04	187,036	147,784	33,076
2004-05	202,914	135,995	33,887
2005-06	198,204	122,684	43,704
2006-07	183,321	114,248	54,749
¹ Includes offences recorded by the City of London police and the Metropolitan Police Service. ² The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in April 2002. Figures before and after that date are not directly comparable.

Volume 471: debated on Monday 28 January 2008