Crime statistics inquiry

Inquiry by the Public Administration Committee, 17 October 2013 to 15 September 2014. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• Crime Statistics (16 December 2013)
• 13th Report - Caught red-handed: Why we can't count on Police Recorded Crime statistics (9 April 2014)
• Caught red-handed: Why we can't count on Police Recorded Crime statistics (14 July 2014)
• 4th Special Report - Caught red-handed: Why we can’t count on Police Recorded Crime statistics: UK Statistics Authority Response to the Committee’s Thirteenth Report of Session 2013-14 (15 September 2014)

Evidence sessions

• 19 November 2013: Peter Barron, former Detective Chief Superintendent and James Patrick, Metropolitan Police, Dr Rodger Patrick, former Chief Inspector, West Midlands Police, Paul Ford, Police Federation, Ann Barnes, Police and Crime Commissioner for Kent, Nick Alston, Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex, and Paddy Tipping, Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire.
• 11 December 2013: Professor Stephen Shute, Chair, and Professor Mike Hough, Member, Crime Statistics Advisory Committee, and Chief Constable Jeff Farrar, National Policing Lead, Crime and Statistics, Association of Chief Police Officers.
• 8 January 2014: Stephen Greenhalgh, Deputy Mayor of London, and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Commissioner, Metropolitan Police; Tom Winsor, HM Inspector of Constabulary, and Olivia Pinkney, Assistant Inspector of Constabulary, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (at 10.30 am).
• 21 January 2014: Sir Andrew Dilnot CBE, Chair, and Ed Humpherson, Head of Assessment, UK Statistics Authority, Jil Matheson, National Statistician, and John Flatley, Head of Crime Statistics, Office for National Statistics; Norman Baker MP, Minister of State, and Professor Bernard Silverman, Chief Scientific Adviser, Home Office (at 10.30 am).