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Burglary

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the number of burglaries that go unreported in England and Wales each year; and if she will make a statement. [198190]

Jacqui Smith: The British Crime Survey (BCS) routinely collects information on whether or not crimes are reported to the police and this is presented in the annual Home Office Statistical Bulletin Crime in England and Wales, copies of which can be found in the House of Commons Library.

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate her Department has made of the number of unreported burglaries and break-ins in the last year for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement. [200547]

Jacqui Smith: The British Crime Survey (BCS) routinely collects information on whether or not crimes are reported to the police and this is presented in the annual Home Office Statistical Bulletin Crime in England and Wales, copies of which can be found in the House of Commons Library.

Burglary: Greater London

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many burglaries were reported in each London borough in each of the last five years; and how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there were for burglary in each such borough and year. [200548]

Jacqui Smith: The available data relate to the number of recorded offences of burglary and are given in the following table. I am informed that information on the number of defendants proceeded against or found
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guilty for an offence in each London borough are not separately identifiable from the data reported to the Ministry of Justice.

Offences of burglary recorded by the police by London borough
Number
Borough 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07

Barking and Dagenham

2,012

2,240

2,175

1,921

2,117

Barnet

4039

3,978

4,045

4,363

3,904

Bexley

2341

2,226

1,986

2,366

2,076

Brent

3,859

4,062

3,987

3,904

3,330

Bromley

3,596

3,472

3,776

3,926

3,588

Camden

5,884

4,843

4,171

4,108

4,322

City of Westminster

5,264

4,296

4,497

4,158

3,801

Croydon

4,115

3,769

3,230

3,582

3,464

Ealing

4,543

4,375

4,350

4,999

3,957

Enfield

4301

3,865

3,528

3,844

3,638

Greenwich

2,986

3,080

2,970

3,209

3,241

Hackney

4,807

4,327

3,897

3,547

2,687

Hammersmith and Fulham

3,089

2,827

3,023

3,052

2,732

Haringey

4,356

4,115

4,084

3,841

3,559

Harrow

2,736

2,626

2,178

2,446

1,959

Havering

2,386

2,161

2,315

2,453

2,511

Hillingdon

3,569

3,183

3,143

3,137

3,182

Hounslow

3,374

3,450

2,969

2,982

2594

Islington

4,429

3,957

3,681

3,683

3,728

Kensington and Chelsea

2,512

2,576

2,580

2,444

2,182

Kingston upon Thames

985

939

984

1,188

1,038

Lambeth

5,694

4,980

4,150

3,884

3,685

Lewisham

3,708

3,837

3,778

3,524

3,579

Merton

1930

2,034

1,764

1,796

1,828

Newham

3,494

3,398

3,410

4,112

3,371

Redbridge

2,974

2,990

3,058

3,282

3,053

Richmond upon Thames

2,120

1,787

2,017

2,395

2,085

Southwark

4,885

4,556

4,411

4,143

4,087

Sutton

1,446

1,397

1,429

1,480

1,451

Tower Hamlets

3,567

3,023

3,070

3,467

2,890

Waltham Forest

3,812

3,284

3,144

3,131

3,116

Wandsworth

4,547

3,664

3,616

3,108

3,945

Total

113,360

105,317

101,416

103,475

96,698


Crime: Internet

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many websites were closed down by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency’s e-crime unit in 2006-07. [195539]

Jacqui Smith: The responsibility for closing down fraudulent or malicious websites rests with communication service providers, who act on a variety of information including that which may have been provided by SOCA. SOCA is only directly involved in the closure of the site in the event that the provider has failed to respond to a take down notice, or if data needs to be preserved or acquired for a statutory purpose.

During 2006-07, there were approximately 30 separate occasions where the e-Crime department was directly involved in the removal of such websites.


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Crime: Young People

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans her Department has to include children under 16 years of age in future British Crime Survey statistics; and if she will make a statement. [200513]

Jacqui Smith: I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave to his question on 3 March 2008, Official Report, columns 2081-82W.

Crimes of Violence

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps are being taken by her Department to encourage the public to report a greater proportion of knife crime to the police. [200543]

Jacqui Smith: We are focusing considerable resources on highlighting the seriousness of knife crime. We will shortly be launching a public campaign to highlight to young people the risks of carrying knives.

We also support the work of Be Safe, who provide weapons awareness training to young people, and train others to deliver workshops on weapons.

CrimeStoppers are currently running a programme of outreach work, supported by the Home Office, which aims to encourage the reporting of crime, including knife crime.

Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes of violence against the person were recorded in the London borough of Bexley in each of the last five years. [203385]

Mr. Coaker: The Home Office publishes statistics at Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) area level. The number of offences of violence against the person for each of the last five years for the Bexley CDRP is available on the Home Office website at:

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