§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were convicted of murder and manslaughter, respectively, in 1979; and by what percentage these figures exceed or are less than the comparable totals in 1963.
§ Mr. BrittanThe figures requested for 1979 will be published next month in the next issue ofCriminal Statistics, England and Wales. Meanwhile I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to him on 20 May 1980—Vol. 985, c. 102—and to the information on offences recorded in 1979, given in Home Office statistical bulletin 9/80, a copy of which is in the Library.