§ Mr. Tebbitasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, for all quarters of 1978 for which information is available, the number of indictable offences committed in England and Wales.
§ Mr. John:The available information given in the following table was issued in the press notice "Indictable offences recorded by the police—third quarter 1978" which has been placed in the Library of the House. These figures are to be included in the "Monthly Digest of Statistics" as from the January 1979 edition.
INDICTABLE OFFENCES RECORDED BY THE POLICE ENGLAND AND WALES, 1978 Period Number of offences (thousand) 1st quarter 630.9 2nd quarter 655.9 3rd quarter 628.2