§ Mr. Hamlingasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much of the gross national product was taken by taxation in the United Kingdom in each year since 1946; and what percentages of the total fell under the heads of direct taxes on households, social security contributions, direct taxes on corporations, and indirect taxes, respectively.
§ Mr. MacDermotThe available information is given in the table below.
for the year 1964 from the following authorities respectively, Metropolitan, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire County, and Blackpool.
§ Miss BaconStatistics of persons apprehended are not readily available for each police district. The following 183W table shows, for the police districts concerned, the numbers of persons convicted of indictable offences in 1964 expressed as a percentage of the number of indictable offences known to the police in that year.
Number of persons convicted of indictable offences in 1964 Number of indictable offences known to the police in 1964 Column (2) as a percentage of Column (3) (1) (2) (3) (4) Metropolitan Police District 40,314 254,260 15.9 Birmingham 5,244 35,368 14.8 Liverpool 5,581 30,308 18.4 Manchester 6,285 28,550 22.0 Lancashire County 8,990 38,061 23.6 Blackpool 1,270 5,326 23.8