Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the detection rate for each offence group recorded by the Police has been in each of the last five years.

In April 2013, the Home Office introduced the new outcomes framework, replacing ‘detections’. This new framework provides greater transparency on how all crimes recorded by the police are dealt with. The previous detections framework gave a partial picture of the work police do to investigate and resolve crime.

Table 2.2 of the annual publication “Crime Outcomes in England and Wales, year ending March 2017” provides data on outcomes for crimes in that year by offence group and outcome type. These outcomes cover all the possible actions the police could take under the old detections framework, as well as the additional outcomes. These tables, and data for earlier years, can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics