Burglary

Sandra Gidley
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reported incidents of domestic burglary there were in (a) England and Wales, (b) the South East, (c) Hampshire and (d) Romsey constituency in each of the last five years.

Mr. Alan Campbell
The available information on the number of offences recorded by the police is given in the following table.

Crime statistics are not collected at constituency level. The area of Romsey comes within the Test Valley Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) and therefore these figures have been provided.

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|Area                       |2003-04|2004-05|2005-06|2006-07|2007-08|
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|England and Wales          |402,345|321,507|300,517|292,260|280,704|
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|South East region          |40,879 |34,629 |33,576 |32,706 |30,098 |
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|Hampshire police force area|7,030  |5,415  |5,810  |5,451  |5,300  |
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|Test Valley CDRP           |311    |241    |299    |256    |279    |
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