§ Mr. Cookasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report an updated version of the reply given to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central on 14 December 1977 concerning statistics on the murder of spouses and other relatives.
§ Mr. RifkindThe numbers of persons convicted for the murder of a spouse or other relative in the years from 1974 to 1978 were:
The figures given below include part-time workers translated into terms of full-time equivalents.
Total Full-Time Equivalent March 1976 256,750 June 1976 257.148 September 1976 255,937 December 1976 253,703 March 1977 250,651 June 1977 248,079 September 1977 245,514 December 1977 245,291 March 1978 245,593 June 1978 247,953 September 1978 251,531 December 1978 252,077 The figures do not include staff employed under the job creation or special temporary employment programmes. In June 1974 and 1975 the full-time equivalent number of local authority employees was 218,500 and 234,500 respectively; these figures are not directly comparable with Manpower Watch figures.