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Crime: West Yorkshire

Volume 498: debated on Wednesday 28 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of (a) alcohol- and (b) drug-related crime were recorded in (i) Leeds West constituency, (ii) Leeds City and (iii) West Yorkshire in each year since 2005. (295361)

The data requested on incidents are not collected centrally. However, the British Crime Survey provides figures for violent incidents where the victim believes the offender was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This information is provided in the following table.

Violent incidents where the victim believed the offender(s) to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs, 1995 to 2008-09

Percentages and numbers (thousand)—BCS

Statistically significant change

Offender(s) perceived to be under the influence of:1

1995

1997

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

1995 to 2008-09

2007-08 to 2008-09

Proportion of all violent incidents2

Alcohol

41

43

48

45

51

49

45

46

46

47

**

Drugs

16

18

21

20

20

18

23

17

19

17

Unweighted

1,078

915

1,285

1,397

1,398

1,455

1,512

1,658

1,477

1,449

Number of violent incidents(thousand)

Alcohol

1,656

1,457

1,244

1,177

1,299

1,105

1,023

1,087

971

973

**

Drugs

655

603

549

544

474

390

531

398

390

334

**

Unweighted

16,348

14,947

32,824

36,479

37,931

45,120

47,729

47,138

46,903

46,220

1 Questions asked only if the victim was able to say something about the offender(s), and if there was more than one offender, victims were asked if any of the offenders were perceived to be under the influence. Questions were not asked if any offender(s) were perceived to be under school age.

2 ‘All violence’ includes wounding, assault with minor injury, assault without injury and robbery. See section 5 of volume 2 for more information.

Notes:

For an explanation of year-labels see ‘Conventions used in figures and tables’ at the start of this volume.

Taken from table 3.16 at the following link:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb1109chap3.xls