§ 43. Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Seccretary of State for the Home Department how many murders and crimes of 481W violence were made known to the police in 1974; and by what percentage these figures exceed or are less than the comparable figures in 1964.
§ Mr. Alexander W. LyonThe number of offences of violence against the person recorded as known to the police in England and Wales in 1974 was 63,781. This figure exceeds the comparable 1964 figure by 172 per cent.
Information is not yet available about the number of offences of homicide for 1974 on a current classification basis.
The number of offences in 1973 currently recorded as homicide is 391. Of these, 82 were decided by a court to be murder. The latter figure is 55 per cent. higher than the corresponding figure for 1964.