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Antisocial Behaviour: Crosby

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of anti-social behaviour orders in reducing anti-social behaviour in Crosby constituency. [236717]

Mr. Alan Campbell: Antisocial behaviour orders are one of many powerful tools we created to tackle antisocial behaviour. Three independent reports including the Home Affairs Select Committee report (2005), the Audit Commission report (May 2006) and the NAO report (December 2006) confirmed that they work.

Sefton antisocial behaviour unit uses the full range of interventions that deal with both prevention and enforcement in that they engage, educate and promote awareness among young people; engage with residents and tackle antisocial behaviour in families throughout the borough of Sefton, which includes Crosby. It operates the policy advocated by Home Office Guidance that the appropriate intervention should be used in the right way at the right time and incrementally. This means that a low-level intervention such as a warning letter or antisocial behaviour contract would be used before an ASBO unless the behaviour is sufficiently serious to warrant it.

British Crime Survey

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the technical report relating to the 2007-08 British Crime Survey will be published. [233569]

Jacqui Smith [holding answer 6 November 2008]: The 2007-08 British crime survey technical report can be found on the following webpage on the Home Office website:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/bcs-methodological.html

Community Policing

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which police forces have expressed an interest in taking part in the pilots of the community safety participatory budgets referred to in the Policing Green Paper. [232904]

Mr. Coaker: The Home Office has been working with Communities and Local Government and the Participatory Budgeting Unit to establish a set of criteria for the community safety participatory budgeting pilots. A number of practitioners from police forces, police authorities and local authorities have been assisting this process.
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The criteria are currently being finalised and the Home Office will shortly invite formal expressions of interest in running pilots.

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which local authority areas will receive funding from her Department under the community crime fighters scheme. [236412]

Mr. Alan Campbell: Funding for community crime fighters is not being allocated directly to local authorities. Training, funded by the Home Office, will be offered to around 3,600 people who are already involved with local services, such as tenants and residents groups, neighbourhood watch members and those working with neighbourhood policing teams.

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding she has allocated to the community crime fighter scheme; and over what time-frame. [236413]

Mr. Alan Campbell: Total funding of £5 million has been allocated to the community crime fighters scheme to cover the period 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what role she proposes for local authorities in the proposed community crime fighters scheme. [236414]

Mr. Alan Campbell: Training will be offered to around 3,600 people who are already involved with local services, such as tenants and residents groups, neighbourhood watch members and those working with neighbourhood policing teams. Local authorities will have an important role, working with the police and other partners, to help identify those who are suitable for the training and to work with them once they have received it.

Crime

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) vehicle thefts, (b) domestic burglaries and (c) violent crimes there were in each of the last 17 years. [234497]

Mr. Alan Campbell: The British Crime Survey (BCS) is the best guide to long term trends in vehicle theft, domestic burglary and violent crime in England and Wales. Prior to 2001-02 the survey ran periodically and estimates are available for only selected years.

These figures are published annually in the Home Office statistical bulletin Crime in England and Wales, a copy of which is available in the House of Commons Library. These estimates are also shown in Table 1.

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Table 1: BCS incidents of crime from 1981 to 2007-08
	1981	1991	1995	1997	2001-02 ints	2002-03 ints	2004-05 ints	2005-06 ints	2006-07 ints	2007-08 ints
Property crime	Number of incidents (thousand)
Burglary1	749	1,380	1,770	1,621	969	973	756	733	726	729
With entry	474	869	998	852	552	561	469	440	425	435
Attempts	276	511	772	768	416	412	287	293	301	294
With loss	373	712	791	651	396	407	327	315	310	318
No loss (including attempts)	376	668	979	970	573	566	429	418	417	411
Vehicle-related theft	1,751	3,845	4,350	3,511	2,494	2,365	1,886	1,731	1,689	1,497
Theft from vehicle	1,286	2,424	2,544	2,200	1,496	1,425	1,210	1,121	1,129	994
Theft of vehicles	285	522	510	378	316	278	214	185	176	161
Attempts of and from	179	899	1,297	933	683	662	462	425	384	342
Unweighted base-household crime	10,905	10,059	16,310	14,900	32,720	36,395	44,973	47,610	47,027	46,765
Violence
All BCS violence(2)	2,074	2,556	4,176	3,593	2,728	2,714	2,320	2,349	2,471	2,164
Wounding	508	624	914	804	648	709	577	547	578	467
Assault with minor injury	609	784	1,356	1,198	709	623	629	572	571	481
Assault with no injury	793	966	1,567	1,257	1,015	1,079	860	918	1,002	903
Robbery	164	182	339	334	356	303	255	311	320	313
Violence with injury	1,194	1,441	2,408	2,184	1,497	1,441	1,300	1,227	1,270	1,042
Violence with no injury	881	1,115	1,768	1,409	1,231	1,273	1,020	1,121	1,201	1,122
Domestic violence	292	534(3)	989	814	626	506	401	357	407	342
Acquaintance	774	1.043(3)	1,816	1,642	862	949	828	817	845	765
Stranger	844	797(3)	1,004	784	883	956	836	863	894	744
Mugging (robbery and snatch theft)	250	259(3)	419	417	430	391	347	382	392	391
Unweighted base-personal crime	10,905	10,059	16,337	14,937	32,787	36,450	45,069	47,729	47,138	46,903
(1) Burglary with entry plus attempted burglary add up to total burglary. Burglary with loss plus burglary with no loss (including attempts) also add up to total burglary. (2) All BCS violence includes wounding, assault with minor injury, assault with no injury and robbery. Mugging includes robbery and snatch theft. For more information see the glossary. (3) The 1991 estimates for domestic, acquaintance and stranger violence and mugging were calculated based on the estimate for all BCS violence. Estimates for these individual categories could not be calculated using their individual incidence rates because the data used for calculating these rates were not collected for that year. Note: For household crimes the 2007-08 numbers are derived by multiplying offence rates (incidence rates) by 23,607,316 households in England and Wales. For personal crimes the 2007-08 numbers are derived by multiplying incidence rates by 43,859,000 adults in England and Wales.

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