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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department why statistics on crime in Wales are not separated from statistics for England. [150463] Ms Blears: Statistics on crime in Wales are published separately in a number of publications. For example, the "Digest of Welsh Statistics 2003", published by the National Assembly for Wales, contains a chapter on crime and justice statistics. This can be found on the Welsh Assembly website at http://www.wales.gov.uk/ keypubstatisticsforwales/content/publication.htm. A range of other statistics are available through the Welsh Assembly website at http://www.wales.gov.uk/ keypubstatisticsforwales/topicindex/topics.htm under "Crime". The Home Office Statistical Bulletin 7/03, "Crime in England and Wales 2002/2003" includes breakdowns of statistics for Wales, and for police forces within Wales, along with equivalent figures for English regions. These statistics include the number of recorded offences broken down by offence group, with offences per 1,000 population given for these figures. Victimisation rates are also given, as well as overall detection rates over time for Wales, methods of detection in 2002-03, and rates of detection for each main offence group in 2002-03. There are also breakdowns of violent crime offences, burglary and vehicle crime offences by police force area. In the internet publication, a separate chapter contains a summary for Wales of the main findings from crime statistics and British Crime Survey and this is available at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/wales.pdf. Supplementary Volume 2 to "Crime in England and Wales 2002/2003", which deals with public attitudes to crime, disorder and the criminal justice system, was published on 22 January. It includes figures for Wales, as well as English regions, concerning confidence in the criminal justice system, confidence in the police, perceptions of crime, and worry about crime.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

417 c788-9W;417 c789W; 150463

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Crime Crimes of violence Cars Burglary Statistics Wales

Link

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