Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of crime to the public purse in each region of England and Wales in each year since 2017.

The Economic and Social Costs of Crime (published by the Home Office, July 2018) estimates the costs of crime against individuals and businesses in England and Wales, in the year ending 31^st March 2016. The report estimates the total cost at £59 billion (2015/16 prices).

The economic and social costs of crime (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Following this publication, the Home Office has published multiple standalone reports costing the impact of different crime types, including Contact Child Sexual Abuse (published December 2021), Organised Crime (published February 2019), Domestic Abuse (published January 2019), and Modern Slavery (published July 2018).

A regional breakdown of the costs are not available, however regional crime statistics can be found via the ONS (Crime in England and Wales: Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)).

References:

Economic and Social Cost of Child Sexual Abuse:

The economic and social cost of contact child sexual abuse - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Understanding Organised Crime:

Understanding organised crime 2015/16 second edition (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Economic and Social Costs of Domestic Abuse:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/918897/horr107.pdf