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| Crimes against households and adults down 10% | Crimes against households and adults down 10% |
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| Crimes against households and adults fell by 10% in England and Wales in the year to September 2013, official figures show. | Crimes against households and adults fell by 10% in England and Wales in the year to September 2013, official figures show. |
| The Crime Survey of England and Wales said there were had been eight million such incidents in that period. | The Crime Survey of England and Wales said there were had been eight million such incidents in that period. |
| It is the lowest estimate since the survey began in 1981. | It is the lowest estimate since the survey began in 1981. |
| The figures, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), estimate crime levels based on how many people say they have been victim of a crime. | The figures, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), estimate crime levels based on how many people say they have been victim of a crime. |
| The ONS also published police figures which showed there had been 3.7 million offences in the same period, a decrease of 3% compared with the previous year. | |
| But the UK Statistics Authority said last week that it could no longer approve the police data because of claims of unreliability. | |
| The statistics are the first to be released since the National Statistics designation was removed from all crime data recorded by the police. | |
| The number of sexual offences recorded by police increased by 17%, which the ONS said "is likely to be partly due to a continuation of a 'Yewtree effect', whereby a greater number of victims have come forward to report historical sexual offences to the police". | |
| There were "signs of increasing upward pressures" in some other offences, including a 4% rise in shoplifting and a 7% increase in theft from the person, the ONS said. | |
| Fraud offences recorded by police went up by 34%. | |
| The ONS said: "This rise should be seen in the context of a move towards improved recording of fraud following a move to centralised recording by the police. | |
| "In addition, there were 292,814 reports of fraud to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau from industry bodies." |