§ Mr. Wrightasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many murders occurred in Scotland in the first nine months of 1968; what were the comparable figures for each year since 1962; how many crimes of violence occurred in the first nine months of 1968 and how these compared with each year since 1962; and how many, in each case, occurred in Glasgow.
§ Mr. RossAs it is the established practice to adjust statistics of offences of murder made known to the police to exclude offences initially recorded as murder but subsequently found not to be murder, these statistics are compiled for complete years only. Figures for crimes of 139W violence for the first nine months of 1968 are not yet available.