Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reports of (a) violent crime and (b) serious violent crime there were in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) England and Wales in each year since 1997. (321592)

The term 'violent crime' is no longer used. Data are supplied for violence against the person offences. The requested information is shown in the table. Recorded crime statistics at constituency level are not collected centrally.

*Table 1: Offences of violence against the person recorded by the police, 1997*
	Number
South Tyneside CDRP	¹—
North-east region	9,242
England and Wales	250,882
¹ Not available.

*Table 2: Offences of violence against the person recorded by the police, 1998-99 to 2001-02*
Number
Offence	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02
South Tyneside CDRP	¹—	¹—	¹—	1,686
North-east region	20,391	21,984	21,086	25,579
England and Wales	502,778	581,034	600,913	650,326
¹ Not available. Notes: 1. The coverage was extended and counting rules revised from 1998-99. Figures from that date are not directly comparable with those for 1997. 2. The data in this table are prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years.

*Table 3: Offences of violence against the person recorded by the police, 2002-03 to 2008-09*
Number
	South Tyneside CDRP	North-east region	England and Wales¹
2002-03	2,568	39,164	845,078
2003-04	2,500	40,561	967,228
2004-05	2,252	41,537	1,048,095
2005-06	2,637	46,206	1,059,583
2006-07	2,711	48,194	1,046,167
2007-08	2,289	41,085	961,099
2008-09	2,023	37,244	903,442
¹ Includes British Transport police from 2002-03. Note: The data in this table take account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years.

Volume 507: debated on Monday 15 March 2010