§ Sir C. Osborneasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of murders known to the police for each of the years 1960 to 1965 and for 1966 to the latest available date.
§ Mr. TaverneThe number of offences of murder known to the police, excluding offences subsequently found not to be murder, was 135 in 1960, 132 in 1961, 143 in 1962, 133 in 1963, 155 in 1964 and 293W 154 in 1965; the figure for 1965 includes 2 offences not yet disposed of by the courts.
These figures are calculated for complete years only, and the figure for 1966 should be available about this time next year.