Unsolved Crimes

16.

Mr. Eastham
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the proportion of crimes in each of the years 1978 to 1985 which were not cleared up.

Mr. Hurd
The percentage of crime cleared up by the police is published each year in the Command Paper "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales". The clear-up rate for 1985 was 35 per cent.

21.

Mr. Blair
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total number of crimes since 1 April 1979 which have not been cleared up.

Mr. Douglas Hogg
The estimated number of notifiable offences which were recorded by the police in England and Wales in the period 1979 to 1985 but not cleared up is about 13 million.