Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of recent trends in the level of crime.

Police reform is working and crime is falling. Both the independent Crime Survey and police recorded crime show crime has fallen by more than 10 per cent under this coalition government.

England and Wales are safer than they have been for decades with the Crime Survey showing crime at its lowest level since the survey began in 1981.