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Theft: Motor Vehicles

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of vehicles being stolen during (a) robberies and (b) domestic burglaries have been recorded by each police force in each of the last five years. (262389)

The available information is given in the following table. Statistics relating to the number of recorded offences of vehicles stolen during robberies or domestic burglaries are only available for 2007-08.

These data are normally used for management information only and are not subject to the detailed checks that apply for National Statistics. The data are provisional and may be subject to change.

The Policing Green Paper announced that Sir David Normington, Permanent Secretary to the Home Office, would lead a review of the strategic data collection burden placed by the Home Office on police forces in England and Wales. Sir David's report was published on 16 February. As a result, the Home Office propose to cease the collection of data on vehicles stolen during robberies and domestic burglaries during Phase 2 between 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010.

Recorded offences of vehicles stolen in robberies and domestic burglaries, 2007-08

Police force area

Stolen during a robbery

Stolen duringa domestic burglary

Avon and Somerset

33

335

Bedfordshire

26

248

Cambridgeshire

52

138

Cheshire

23

349

Cleveland

1

27

Cumbria

0

28

Derbyshire

17

285

Devon and Cornwall

6

63

Dorset

4

52

Durham

1

81

Dyfed-Powys

0

25

Essex

79

579

Gloucestershire

5

96

Greater Manchester

627

1,851

Gwent

0

63

Hampshire

23

159

Hertfordshire

16

407

Humberside

n/a

n/a

Kent

37

278

Lancashire

30

338

Leicestershire

20

225

Lincolnshire

2

90

London, City of

0

0

Merseyside

92

783

Metropolitan Police

1,000

2,479

Norfolk

1

16

North Wales

6

63

North Yorkshire

4

201

Northamptonshire

27

310

Northumbria

23

153

Nottinghamshire

47

434

South Wales

n/a

n/a

South Yorkshire

45

605

Staffordshire

32

252

Suffolk

1

43

Surrey

5

157

Sussex

0

25

Thames Valley

40

843

Warwickshire

28

173

West Mercia

12

178

West Midlands

377

1,134

West Yorkshire

112

2,113

Wiltshire

4

62

England and Wales

2,858

15,741

n/a = Not available