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Community Safety (Funding)

Dr. Stoate: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the (a) national and (b) regional funding streams which (i) local authorities, (ii) town and parish councils and (iii) other local organisations with an interest in promoting community safety in Kent Thameside are eligible to apply to for assistance in funding (A) youth shelters, (B) sports systems and (C) other facilities and diversionary activities for young people. [199429]

Ms Blears: Home Office funding which promotes community safety is channelled through Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs), of which local authorities, town and parish councils and other organisations can be members. Community safety funding is drawn from the Building Safer Communities (BSC) and Basic Command Unit (BCU) funds. Both funds were introduced in 2003–04 to run for three years.

The Basic Command Unit fund is provided to the police and amounts to £150 million over three years. The Kent Thameside area falls within the North Kent Basic Command Unit, which received £180,598 this year from the BCU fund.
 
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The Building Safer Communities fund is provided to CDRPs; totalling £72.3 million in 2003–04, and £74 million in 2004–05. The two CDRPs which comprise the Kent Thameside area, Dartford and Gravesham, received £163,437 and £164,635 respectively this year.

The main funding streams supported by other Government Departments which also assist with the activities described are the Department for Education and Skills' Children's Fund; the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Neighbourhood Renewal Fund; the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's funds which are channelled through Sport England and its regional sports boards; and the cross departmental programme Positive Activities for Young People. In addition, the Big Lottery also provides funding through its Young People's Fund.

Community Safety Officers (West Midlands)

Mr. Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the application from West Midlands police for funds for community safety officers (CSOs) for 2004–05 to 2006–07 included an indication of where CSOs would be deployed. [200316]

 
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Ms Blears: Deployment of police officers and police staff, including community support officers (CSOs) is an operational matter for chief officers of police. The recent application on behalf of West Midlands Police Authority for funding for additional CSOs under the first round of the Neighbourhood Policing Fund, indicated that the additional CSOs would be deployed primarily in urban areas, within a neighbourhood policing team model.

Correspondence

Sir Michael Spicer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 18 October (Ref: M15239/4). [200325]

Caroline Flint: I replied to the hon. Member on 30 November 2004.

Crime

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answers of 2 November 2004, Official Report, columns 191–92W, on crime, if he will provide the figures for each year between 1997 and 2003–04. [199549]

Ms Blears: The available information is given in the tables. Clear-up rates for all offences in the York CDRP are not available centrally.
Table 1: Clear-up rates for Yorkshire and the Humber—1997–98 to 2001–02

Percentage
Period	Yorkshire and the Humber region	North Yorkshire	York CDRP
1997–98	27	26	—
1998–99(35)	28	33	—
1999–2000	24	31	—
2000–01	24	30	—
2001–02	21	26	—

'—' Not available.
⁽³⁵⁾ Figures for offences cleared up are affected by changes to the detections counting rules in 1998–99.
Note:
The data in this table are prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years.





Table 2: Clear-up rates for Yorkshire and the Humber—2002–03 and 2003–04 Percentage

Period	Yorkshire and the Humber region	North Yorkshire	York CDRP
2002–03	21	26	—
2003–04	21	28	—

'—' Not available.
⁽³⁶⁾ The data in this table take account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years.

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 2 November, Official Report, columns 191–92W, on crime, how many (a) crimes, (b) burglaries, (c) thefts and (d) vehicle-related crimes were reported to the police (i) in Yorkshire and the Humber and (ii) in North Yorkshire in each year since 1999. [199550]

 
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Ms Blears: The information requested is given in the tables.
Table 1, Recorded Offences in Yorkshire and the Humber and North Yorkshire—1999–2000 to 2001–02

Number of offences
Yorkshire and the Humber
Period	Recorded crimes	Burglaries	Thefts1	Vehicle crimes
1999–2000	566,933	133,940	241,586	164,474
2000–01	545,950	125,786	229,444	157,144
2001–02	610,223	139,044	254,416	123,614
North Yorkshire
1999–2000	53,554	10,402	24,326	13,315
2000–01	51,551	9,829	22,796	12,274
2001–02	59,149	11,658	25,191	8,176

⁽³⁷⁾ Excludes vehicle crime.
Note:
The data in this table is prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years.





Table 2, Recorded Offences in Yorkshire and the Humber and North Yorkshire—2002–03 and 2003–04

Number of offences
Yorkshire and the Humber
Period	Recorded crimes	Burglaries	Thefts(38)	Vehicle crimes
2002–03	675,383	142,997	271,360	127,529
2003–04	680,467	121,175	258,505	115,899
North Yorkshire
2002–03	67,798	11,595	28,590	9,642
2003–04	71,473	11,062	29,406	9,516

⁽³⁸⁾Excludes vehicle crime.
Note:
The data in this table takes account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years.

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of crimes reported to the police in Pendle were cleared up in (a) 1996 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available. [200970]

Ms Blears: Information on crimes cleared up in Pendle is not collected centrally. Pendle comes within the Pennine Basic Command Unit (BCU). Information at BCU level has only been collected from 1999–2000 onwards so figures for 1996 are not available centrally. The clear-up rate for 2003–04 in the Pennine BCU was 27 per cent.

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) crimes, (b) burglaries, (c) thefts and (d) vehicle-related crimes were reported to the police in Pendle in (i) 1996 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available. [200971]

Ms Blears: Pendle is a Crime and Disorder Partnership (CDRP) area within the Lancashire police force area. Information at CDRP level has only been collected from 1999–2000 onwards so figures for 1996 are not available centrally.

The latest published information shows that there were 9,248 offences recorded in Pendle in 2003–04. Of these, 1,540 were burglaries and 3,015 were thefts. Of those thefts, 1,234 were thefts of or from a vehicle.
 
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Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of domestic violence have been reported to the police in (a) Pendle and (b) Lancashire in each year since 2000. [200995]

Ms Blears: Domestic violence is not separately identified in the recorded crime statistics collected by the Home Office.

However, the British Crime Survey (BCS) routinely collects data on the prevalence and number of incidents of domestic violence in England and Wales from the main 'face-to-face' part of the survey.

The BCS is unable to provide information at either the police force area or the more local level requested. The available information is for the North West Region as follows:
BCS incident rates of domestic violence per 10,000 adults in the North West Region

2001–02	97
2002–03	93
2003–04	61

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