Serious Offences Mr. Kilroy-Silk asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the clear-up rate for the total number of serious offences recorded by the police in 1981 for each police force. Mr. Mayhew The information requested is given in the following table. These clear-up rates are average rates for all serious offences recorded and so are affected by variations in the types of offence recorded and the circumstances of those offences.--------------------- |Police force area | --------------------- |Avon and Somerset | --------------------- |Bedfordshire | --------------------- |Cambridgeshire | --------------------- |Cheshire | --------------------- |Cleveland | --------------------- |Cumbria | --------------------- |Derbyshire | --------------------- |Devon and Cornwall | --------------------- |Dorset | --------------------- |Durham | --------------------- |Essex | --------------------- |Gloucestershire | --------------------- |Greater Manchester | --------------------- |Hampshire | --------------------- |Hertfordshire | --------------------- |Humberside | --------------------- |Kent | --------------------- |Lancashire | --------------------- |Leicestershire | --------------------- |Lincolnshire | --------------------- |London, City of | --------------------- |Merseyside | --------------------- |Metropolitan Police| --------------------- |Norfolk | --------------------- |Northamptonshire | --------------------- |Northumbria | --------------------- |North Yorkshire | --------------------- |Nottinghamshire | --------------------- |South Yorkshire | --------------------- |Staffordshire | --------------------- |Suffolk | --------------------- |Surrey | --------------------- |Sussex | --------------------- |Thames Valley | --------------------- |Warwickshire | --------------------- |West Mercia | --------------------- |West Midlands | --------------------- |West Yorkshire | --------------------- |Wiltshire | --------------------- |Dyfed Powys | --------------------- |Gwent | --------------------- |North Wales | --------------------- |South Wales | --------------------- |England and Wales | ---------------------