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Kit Malthouse (Chairman): We are already doing that. It is worth also mentioningwhat I said before; just the recording of crime, the way it is currently done, can be adeterrent to activity. If police officers search your house and find a gun, that getsrecorded as a gun crime, despite the fact that there is not a victim. In terms of the overallnumbers they would have been better of not searching the house. We do need to dosomething about the way crime is recorded and registered to make sure that we aredriving the right incentives. OK. Victoria [Borwick]?Victoria Borwick (AM): This was building up because previously we talked about howwell things were going in Harrow, particularly after various visits. When I was there theymade a comment to me that they felt that the figures had dropped slightly so we wereasking for a comment, please, on Harrow. In the last seven months total notifiableoffences in Harrow rose 4%, robbery rose 16% and serious violence rose 10%. Perhapsyou could let us know why you feel that that has been a disappointing change to theoverall figures?Sir Paul Stephenson (Commissioner, MPS): As you say, Victoria [Borwick], it is aproblem borne out of success; the fact that over a number of years now we have seenvery, very good results in Harrow. Over the last five years incidents of robbery havereduced by 58%, residential burglary down by 17% and on and on. Exactly what you aresaying. Sometimes that gets difficult because you are comparing against ever reducingfigures. One of the complaints you get from borough commanders is you try to ignorethe complaints and still push, despite the danger of performance culture, to say you havestill got to do better and better each year. Of course, in Harrow now, we are talking aboutvery small numbers representing significant percentage increases.Lynne [Owens] might want to add to this. I do know there is a very, very goodcollaboration between the borough and the local authority in Harrow. It is particularlygood and particularly integrated. They are targeting priority crime together, analysis onvictims/offenders/locations, driving officer deployments and problem solving. Partneragency. It is a genuine contribution down there. At the moment there is three weeks todate in a new operation that is going on and that has seen a 30% reduction in burglary anda 27% reduction in offences of robbery. You then have to say they are big reductions butremember these are small numbers so small numbers become very dynamic.They have responded to the fact that the figures have gone suddenly slightly the wrongway and that operation looks like it is driving down the figures once again. It is aproblem borne out of success and I think we have to say Harrow has done very well,particularly the local authority as well, but we need to keep on the case.Victoria Borwick (AM): Thank you very much.Kit Malthouse (Chairman): OK. Valerie [Brasse]?Valerie Brasse (AM): Thank you. My question relates to our earlier discussion ondelivering of savings as much as anything else. You referred to cutting business andwww.merrillcorp.com40