§ Mr. S. C. Silkinasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will give such figures as are available to his Department, or obtainable without disproportionate cost, of the number of persons who have been, respectively, indicted and convicted during the longest possible recent period on charges of riotous assembly and unlawful assembly, respectively.
§ Mr. CarlisleSuch information as is readily available for England and Wales is given below.
The figures relate to the common law offences of riot and unlawful assembly. The statistics are not compiled in such a way as to provide the numbers of persons indicted.
Riotous Assembly Unlawful Assembly Number for trial Number convicted Number for trial Number convicted 1967 37 28 60 58 1968 33 22 22 22 1969 45 22 4 3