§ Lord James Douglas-Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the number of assaults, assaults to severe injury, culpable homicide and murder in Scotland for each of the years 1960 to 1976, inclusive, giving the figures for each year, and also giving tables for the exact number of assaults, assaults to severe injury, culpable homicide and murder in each of the following Scottish cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee and Inverness for each of the years 1960 to 1976, inclusive.
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§ Mr. Harry EwingThe numbers of murders, attempts to murder, culpable homicides, serious assaults and minor assaults known to the police in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee and Scotland for the years 1960 to 1975 are set out in the table below. Figures for Inverness are not recorded separately for
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Murder Attempt to Murder Culpable Homicide Serious Assault Petty Assault Edinburgh— 1960 … … N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. 1961 … … — 1 2 29 824 1962 … … N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. 1963 … … N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. 1964 … … 2 3 3 32 1,125 1965 … … 3 3 2 48 983 1966 … … 2 1 5 96 1,081 1967 … … 6 2 1 133 1,186 1968 … … 5 — 4 128 1,379 1969 … … 1 1 4 100 1,325 1970 … … 3 9 3 143 1,456 1971 … … 4 4 1 149 1,539 1972 … … 7 7 5 187 1,757 1973 … … 4 8 — 183 1,883 1974 … … 5 6 6 182 2,043 1975 … … 1 4 1 100 2,319 Glasgow 1960 … … 4 3 10 418 2,460 1961 … … 7 8 8 451 2,701 1962 … … N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 1963 … … 5 10 11 541 2,837 1964 … … 12 9 6 600 2,856 1965 … … 18 20 9 767 3,069 1966 … … 16 12 10 933 2,994 1967 … … 15 24 9 1,282 3,049 1968 … … 13 26 9 1,349 3,419 1969 … … 13 37 16 1,164 3,628 1970 … … 12 36 26 1,054 3,217 1971 … … 13 41 11 1,210 3,312 1972 … … 24 36 8 1,240 3,132 1973 … … 18 51 11 1,073 3,587 1974 … … 11 45 10 1,182 3,602 1975 … … 20 58 8 1,649 5,938 Aberdeen 1960 … … 1 1 — 20 258 1961 … … 1 — — 33 276 1962 … … — 1 1 19 258 1963 … … 2 — 1 36 228 1964 … … 2 — 2 35 264 1965 … … — 2 1 57 322 1966 … … 4 — 2 62 358 1967 … … — — — 99 428 1968 … … — — 1 93 450 1969 … … — — 2 85 583 1970 … … 1 — 2 85 598 1971 … … 1 — 2 53 802 1972 … … — 2 — 68 1,024 1973 … … — — 2 39 1,201 1974 … … 1 1 — 54 1,754 1975 … … — — — 49 1,515 Dundee 1960 … … — 1 1 38 328 1961 … … — — 1 50 345 1962 … … 1 — 1 45 305 1963 … … — 2 — 9 405 1964 … … 2 2 1 33 455 1965 … … 2 3 — 24 520 1966 … … 2 2 1 24 511 1967 … … 4 1 1 19 620 the period. Those for 1975 are provisional and are not strictly comparable with those for previous years, as they relate to the new city districts for the period subsequent to local authority reorganisation; also there were recording changes affecting the Glasgow figures for 1975.
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Murder Attempt to Murder Culpable Homicide Serious Assault Petty Assault Dundee—cont. 1968 … … 2 3 1 84 602 1969 … … — 1 5 58 581 1970 … … 3 — — 67 502 1971 … … 6 2 — 82 773 1972 … … — 2 3 67 864 1973 … … — 1 3 80 782 1974 … … 1 3 3 160 828 1975 … … 3 3 2 190 807 Scotland 1960 … … 16 10 19 966 N/A 1961 … … 14 10 23 1,063 N/A 1962 … … 27 5 31 1,162 N/A 1963 … … 16 20 30 1,218 N/A 1964 … … 27 22 24 1,462 N/A 1965 … … 32 37 31 1,763 11,682 1966 … … 30 28 56 2,101 12,149 1967 … … 41 49 29 2,440 13,270 1968 … … 41 64 32 2,431 14,727 1969 … … 31 72 51 2,150 15,107 1970 … … 29 93 54 2,108 15,047 1971 … … 45 87 27 2,446 16,510 1972 … … 47 90 38 2,593 18,023 1973 … … 43 119 34 2,354 21,695 1974 … … 38 121 40 2,442 22,943 1975 … … 47 142 31 3,010 25,323 N/A/ denotes figures not available.