Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of crime in (a) Preston constituency, (b) Preston City Council area and (c) Lancashire in each of the last five years.
The Home Office does not collect data at Parliamentary Constituency Level or at City Council level. Data are provided in Table A for Preston Community Safety Partnership and Lancashire police force area.
Table A - Police recorded crime (excluding fraud) in Preston Local Authority and Lancashire police force area, 2009/10 to 2013/14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Area | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Preston Local Authority | 13,485 | 12,867 | 11,044 | 11,161 | 11,310 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Lancashire Police | 105,920 | 101,074 | 97,696 | 92,357 | 95,372 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1. Source: Police recorded crime, Home Office | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3. Action Fraud have taken over the recording of fraud offences on behalf of individual police forces. This process began in April 2011 and was rolled out to all police forces by March 2013. To enable comparison of data across the five year period, fraud data have been excluded. |