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Home Office

Answer

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what reported offences involving violence there were in Waverley in the past three years; and how many of those involved (a) village shops and (b) post offices. [150309] Mr. Charles Clarke: Totals of violent crimes in Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership areas were not collected centrally prior to September 1999, and are not collected by location of offence. The table gives the number of violent offences recorded in Waverley in the year to September 2000 in the three categories of violent crime. There are no previous comparable year data held centrally. This information, with that on all other Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships, was published in table 5 of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin 1/01, "Recorded Crime England and Wales October 1999 to September 2000", which is available in the Library. Waverley crime and disorder reduction partnership _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notifiable offences recorded by the police Number October 1999 to September 2000 Violence against the person 665 Sexual offences 65 Robbery 23 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

150309; 363 c245W;363 c245-6W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Crimes of violence Post offices Shops Rural areas Crime and disorder reduction partnerships Waverley

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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