§ Mr. Rowlandasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of trials by jury failed to reach a verdict in 1938, 1946, and each year since 1956.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsThese statistics are not available. Examination of a sample of trials by jury in 1965 in England and Wales indicates that the jury failed to reach a verdict in about 3½ per cent. of those trials.
§ Mr. Rowlandasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of trials by jury reached a verdict of guilty in 1938, 1946, and each year since 1956.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsAnnual statistics are not available. Examination of a sample of trials by jury in 1965 in England and Wales shows that there was a finding of guilt in about 63 per cent. of concluded trials. A comparable study of trials by jury in 1956 gave approximately the same figure.