Crime: West Yorkshire
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 28 October 2009
John Battle (Leeds West, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of (a) alcohol- and (b) drug-related crime were recorded in (i) Leeds West constituency, (ii) Leeds City and (iii) West Yorkshire in each year since 2005.
Alan Campbell (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Tynemouth, Labour)
The data requested on incidents are not collected centrally. However, the British Crime Survey provides figures for violent incidents where the victim believes the offender was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This information is provided in the following table.
| Violent incidents where the victim believed the offender(s) to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs, 1995 to 2008-09 | ||||||||||||
| Percentages and numbers (thousand)—BCS | ||||||||||||
| Statistically significant change | ||||||||||||
| Offender(s) perceived to be under the influence of:( 1) | 1995 | 1997 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 1995 to 2008-09 | 2007-08 to 2008-09 |
| Proportion of all violent incidents( 2) | ||||||||||||
| Alcohol | 41 | 43 | 48 | 45 | 51 | 49 | 45 | 46 | 46 | 47 | ** | — |
| Drugs | 16 | 18 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 23 | 17 | 19 | 17 | — | — |
| Unweighted | 1,078 | 915 | 1,285 | 1,397 | 1,398 | 1,455 | 1,512 | 1,658 | 1,477 | 1,449 | — | — |
| Number of violent incidents(thousand) | ||||||||||||
| Alcohol | 1,656 | 1,457 | 1,244 | 1,177 | 1,299 | 1,105 | 1,023 | 1,087 | 971 | 973 | ** | — |
| Drugs | 655 | 603 | 549 | 544 | 474 | 390 | 531 | 398 | 390 | 334 | ** | — |
| Unweighted | 16,348 | 14,947 | 32,824 | 36,479 | 37,931 | 45,120 | 47,729 | 47,138 | 46,903 | 46,220 | — | — |
| (1 )Questions asked only if the victim was able to say something about the offender(s), and if there was more than one offender, victims were asked if any of the offenders were perceived to be under the influence. Questions were not asked if any offender(s) were perceived to be under school age. (2) 'All violence' includes wounding, assault with minor injury, assault without injury and robbery. See section 5 of volume 2 for more information. Note s : For an explanation of year-labels see 'Conventions used in figures and tables' at the start of this volume. Taken from table 3.16 at the following link: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb1109chap3.xls | ||||||||||||