PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Burglary: West Midlands (14 October 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many burglaries were recorded as having been committed in (a) Wolverhampton and (b) the area covered by West Midlands Police in each year since 2010; and how many of those burglaries involved a violent assault.

Asked by:
Emma Reynolds (Labour)

The Home Office collects data on the number of burglaries recorded by the police in England and Wales and these data are published quarterly. It is not possible to separately identify the number of burglaries that involved a violent assault in the information that we hold centrally. However, data is available on the number of aggravated burglary offences. These includes burglaries in which an offender is in possession of any firearm or imitation firearm, other weapon or explosive at the time of committing the offence.

Data for West Midlands Police Force Area and for Wolverhampton Community Safety Partnership (CSP) area can be found in open data tables here back to the financial year 2002/03:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables

Information on the number of assaults against disabled people recorded by the police is not held centrally.

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
17 October 2019