§ Mr. Anthony CoombsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table showing the numbers of(a) homicides made known to the police in each of the past 10 years which involved the death of a child under 16 years of age and over the age of one year, and (b) infanticides made known to the police in the past 10 years, indicating the numbers of such cases where the child or infant was sexually abused.
§ Mr. John PattenThe available information is published in chapter 4, "Homicide", of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1986", Cm. 233, copies of which are in the Library.