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Lynne Featherstone: In line with the Code of Practice for official statistics, information about the accuracy and quality of crime statistics produced by the Home Office are published alongside the statistics. In their report on trust in crime statistics published in May 2010, the UK Statistics Authority assessed the technical quality of Home Office crime statistics to compare well with corresponding statistics...
Michael Matheson: Yes. The Scottish Government records crime using the Scottish crime and justice survey and police recorded crime statistics. Both measures tell a similar story of falling crime levels. The production of our police recorded crime statistics is carried out by independent statisticians and is overseen by the Scottish crime recording board. That ensures that the data are transparent, trustworthy...
Nick Herbert: There are two main sources of officials statistics on trends in crime; the British Crime Survey and Police recorded crime. Both sets of statistics have different strengths and weaknesses and provide an incomplete picture. Statistics on the number of incidents from the two sources are published annually in the Home Office statistical bulletin, Crime in England and Wales, a copy of which is...
Hazel 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/pub lication.htm. A range of other statistics are...
Baroness Neville-Jones: There are two main sources of official statistics on trends in crime; the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime. Both sets of statistics have different strengths and weaknesses and provide an incomplete picture. Statistics on the number of incidents of violent crime from the two sources are published annually in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin, Crime in England and Wales, a copy...
Nick Herbert: Home Office crime statistics are produced in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice for Official Statistics. The code sets out the practices that are required to ensure the impartiality, objectivity and integrity of the statistics and the use of sound statistical methods. If we are to improve confidence in crime statistics and drive effective action to tackle crime, the...
Nick Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Glen Watson, dated June 2013 As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking for the number of crimes against the person per 1,000 adults there were in each of the last 30...
Nick Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Glen Watson As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many recorded offences of credit card fraud there were in each of the last three years; what the estimated...
Theresa May: I am today announcing a review led by the national statistician to decide which independent body should have future responsibility for the publication of crime statistics and to oversee the implementation of recommendations last year from the UK Statistics Authority. I am concerned that our existing measures of crime are confusing and offer the public only a partial picture of the true level...
Jacqui Smith: There are currently no plans to transfer responsibility for the British Crime Survey to the Office for National Statistics. The Statistics Commission recommendation was part of a package of proposals to increase public trust in Home Office crime statistics and address any perception that there was a lack of independence in their production. The same issues were considered by the independent...
Nick Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Glen Watson, dated November 2012 As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question. The two main sources of crime statistics are police recorded crime and the Crime Survey for...
Nick Hurd: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Cabinet Office The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Glen Watson dated April 2013 As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking for the number of people who have...
Hazel Blears: The Home Office currently publishes annual total crime statistics recorded by the police in England and Wales for the following offences specifically relating to business crime: robbery of business property, theft by an employee, theft from shops and theft of an automatic machine or meter. Statistics for these offences have not been published at police force area level. The most recent volume...
Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows: Individual crimes within crime groups such as "crimes of indecency" can vary widely in terms of seriousness and the length of imprisonment consequently imposed. The information on sentence length by crime published in the statistical bulletin Prisons Statistics Scotland, 2001...
Nick Herbert: The statement my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary made to the House was based on a range of evidence on violent crime trends. Among these were the two main sources of official statistics on trends in crime are the British Crime Survey and Police recorded crime. However, both these sets of statistics are known to have different strengths and weaknesses and provide an incomplete picture. It...
Theresa May: holding answer 14 June 2010 There are two main sources of official statistics on trends in crime; the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime. Both sets of statistics have different strengths and weaknesses and provide an incomplete picture about the level of offending. Statistics on the number of incidents of violent crime, burglary, theft and domestic violence from the two sources...
Nick Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Glen Watson, dated February 2013 As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many thefts of motor vehicles were recorded in (a) Hull and (b) Kingston upon Hull North...
Tony McNulty: Incidents of criminal damage recorded by the police and estimated by the British Crime Survey (BCS) are reported annually in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin 'Crime in England and Wales'. Current figures can be found in the following table. These are produced for England and Wales as a whole. Separate figures for England are not currently available. The BCS, which provides the best...
Theresa May: holding answer 14 June 2010 The next annual statistical bulletin on crime is pre-announced to be published by the Home Office on 15 July 2010, and as in previous years will include an assessment of the accuracy of sources of information on crime. The UK Statistics Authority published on 24 May its assessment report Overcoming Barriers to Trust in Crime Statistics: England and Wales which...
James Brokenshire: ...public behaviour among late night drinkers in towns and cities since 2010. The Home Office routinely asks about public perceptions of drunk and rowdy behaviour and whether victims of violent crime believed the offender to be under the influence of alcohol, through the British Crime Survey. Findings from the 2010-11 British Crime Survey showed that 23.7% of adults perceived problems with...