§ Mr. HAZLETONasked the Home Secretary if he will state the number of convictions per hundred indictable offences known to the police in England and Wales in 1907, and the rate per cent, of such offences for which no persons were made amenable?
§ Mr. GLADSTONE
The total number of indictable offences known to the police in 1907 was 98,822 The number of persons convicted summarily of indictable offences was 39,893 The number of persons convicted on indictment was 10,379 The number of persons found guilty, but insane, was 33 Total 50,305 The percentage of convictions to indictable offences known to the police in the year 1907 was, therefore, 51. Such a percentage cannot, of course, be exactly accurate, as a considerable proportion of the convictions in any year relate to offences committed in the previous year. It is impossible to give the proportion of offences for which no persons were made amenable, as one conviction often covers a large number of offences.