Detection Rates

Chris Grayling
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what date her Department's public service agreement target in relation to detections will be amended to provide that minor crimes will no longer count towards the target.

Jacqui Smith
There is no public service agreement target on police detections.

Public Service Agreement 24, that came into effect in March 2008, seeks the efficiency and effectiveness of the Criminal Justice System in bringing offences to justice by improving Criminal Justice System performance in bringing serious violent, serious sexual and serious acquisitive offences to justice.