Violent Crime

Part of CCTV – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 11 February 2013.

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Photo of Jeremy Browne Jeremy Browne The Minister of State, Home Department 2:30, 11 February 2013

Two things make Labour MPs look really glum: unemployment falling and crime falling. Any party whose interests conflict so directly with the interests of the people it purports to serve has got political problems. The most recent figures from the crime survey for England and Wales show an 8% fall in crime, and recorded crime statistics are down 7%. The Government have got crime down to the lowest point since records began in 1981, so there are fewer crimes to detect. I hope we will carry on and get crime down even further.