Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on the proportion of bicycles that have been stolen and returned to their owner (a) nationally and (b) in York.

The Office for National Statistics have published estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales that show that the volume of Neighbourhood Crime has fallen by 51% since 2010. The CSEW also shows that the proportion of bicycle owners experiencing theft has also halved over the same period from 3.9% to 1.8%.

Information on whether or not the stolen bicycle was returned to the owner is not available and the sample size of the CSEW is not large enough to yield estimates for York.