§ Mr. Sydney Silvermanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of deaths initially recorded as murder in 1965; and what relationship such figures bear to the final murder figures.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsThe number of deaths in England and Wales initially recorded by the police as murder in 1965 was 262. In every year many of the deaths initially recorded as murder are later found not to be murder but the relationship between initial and final figures is not sufficiently constant to enable any forecast to be made of what the final figure for 1965 will be. The following are the initial and final figures for the previous three years:
Initial Final 1962 … … 238 142 1963 … … 225 133 1964 … … 236 155