Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of crime in Stafford constituency in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

Police recorded crime figures for Stafford Community Safety Partnership (CSP) between 2011/12 and 2016/17 are published by the Home Office.

Number of crimes recorded by the police, Stafford CSP, 2011/12 to 2016/17. Taken from ‘Police recorded crime open data Community Safety Partnership tables from year ending March 2012 onwards’, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables

The most recent national crime figures are published by the Office for National Statistics in ‘Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2017’ (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingmar2017).