Analyses of the items stolen in incidents of domestic burglary as described by victims interviewed by the British Crime Survey (BCS) are published annually by the Home Office as supplementary tables to our annual crime statistics ‘Crime in England and Wales’. The following table provides an estimate of the proportion of incidents of burglary in which a vehicle or vehicle parts were stolen for all available years from 1997 onwards.
The number of BCS respondents who have been robbery victims is too low to provide a robust breakdown on the nature of items stolen.
BCS Interviews 1997 1999 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Vehicle/vehicle parts2 1 2 2 6 4 5 4 4 Unweighted base 391 405 482 584 521 517 492 509 1 Figures from 1997 to 2002/03 refer to incidents of burglary with loss. Figures from 2003-04 to 2006-07 refer to incidents of burglary with entry. 2 ‘Vehicle/vehicle parts’ includes ‘motorcycle/moped’, ‘car/van’, and ‘car/van accessories/parts’.