§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the figures for murder in Scotland for the period 1945 to 1971; and if he will state the number of murders in Scotland this year to the nearest available date.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThe following two tables give the numbers of cases of murders made known to the police in Scotland in the years 1945 to 1971. The table dealing with cases since 1957 is306W adjusted up to date; that is to say, it takes account of any subsequent events, for example, judicial determinations, which establish that a case originally recorded as murder did not constitute murder. Similar figures are not available for the period before 1957 and the first table gives cases as published in the annual Criminal Statistics, that is to say, of cases still treated as murder at the end of the relevant year, and does not exclude cases subsequently established not to be murder. Comparable figures for the current year are not available.
Murder—number of cases known to the police in Scotland—1945–1956. Figures as published in criminal statistics: 1945 24 1946 18 1947 16 1948 14 1949 14 1950 21 1951 9 1952 13 1953 18 1954 14 1955 11 1956 13
Murder—number of cases known to the police in Scotland—1957–1971. Latest corrected figures: 1957 11 1958 15 1959 12 1960 14 1961 10 1962 24 1963 14 1964 23 1965 29 1966 29 1967 38 1968 37 1969 26 1970 28 1971 42