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Question by:
Elizabeth Howlett
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Meeting date:
16 July 2003
Mr Mayor, despite the statistics you quoted earlier, London now has the lowest clear-up rate in England and Wales at 14% and falling. Scotland, in fact, has a clear-up rate of 42%, which is much higher, and this is all despite the increase in police numbers, which I must emphasise we have always supported in each of your budgets. It was other issues in your budget that we took issue with. Now, are you satisfied with these detection rates and if you are not, are you bringing any kind of pressure on the force, on the Commissioner, who I have...