§ 12. Sir C. Osborneasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give in column form the number of murders for each of the last 10 years, and for 1967 to the latest convenient date, for all crimes designated as murder on the same basis as 1957.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsThe latest corrected figures for offences of murder known to the police in England and Wales are:
1957 … … … 151 1958 … … … 125 1959 … … … 141 1960 … … … 135 1961 … … … 130 1962 … … … 142 1963 … … … 133 1964 … … … 153 1965 … … … 151 1966 … … … 141 All the figures are given on the same basis, except that those for 1957 may include some offences for the first two months of that year which, as a result of the Homicide Act 1957, would not now be classified as murder. The figure for 1966, which has recently been reduced by 2 as a result of decisions by the Court of Appeal, still includes one offence not 519W yet disposed of by the courts. I hope to be able to give the 1967 figures next May.