§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will show the number of minutes' work necessary for the average industrial worker in order to earn the price of a pint of milk and of a pint of beer, in 1950, 1960, 1970, 1975 and January 1978.
§ Mr. GoldingAssuming the worker to have gross weekly earnings and hours equal to the average for all full-time manual men and deductions for income tax and national insurance appropriate to a married man with two children under the age of 11, the available information is as follows:
Mr. Merlyn Rees, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 9th January 1978; Vol. 941. c. 614–5, gave the following information:
Information is not readily available in the form requested. In a case of homicide, it is not possible in the absence of a court decision to distinguish between offences of murder, manslaughter and infanticide. The system of recording was improved from 1967 and not all figures are available on the same basis for the whole period. In the following table, one offence is recorded for each victim of homicide. The table relates to the current position of each offence as at 1st June 1977; some offences are included in the total currently recorded as homicide although there has been no court decision, e.g., where the suspect has committed suicide or where there is no suspect. The statistics of homicide are discussed in a special chapter of the annual publication "Criminal Statistics".
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OFFENCES RECORDED BY THE POLICE AS HOMICIDE—ENGLAND AND WALES Offences in which at least one suspect was prosecuted†‡ Offences in which at least one suspect was convicted of homicide Principal suspect convicted of Total Year Offences initially recorded as homicide*Number Number As a percentage of all offences initially recorded as homicide Murder Number S2 Manslaughter Number Other homicide†Number Number As a percentage of offences in which a suspect was prosecuted Offences currently recorded as homicide (as at 1st June 1977) Number 1957 … … … 332 .. .. 36 22 .. .. .. .. 1958 … … … 261 .. .. 26 29 .. .. .. .. 1959 … … … 266 .. .. 44 21 .. .. .. .. 1960 … … … 282 .. .. 41 31 .. .. .. .. 1961 … … … 265 .. .. 38 30 .. .. .. .. 1962 … … … 299 .. .. 38 42 .. .. .. .. 1963 … … … 307 .. .. 38 56 .. .. .. .. 1964 … … … 296 .. .. 47 35 .. .. .. .. 1965 … … … 325 .. .. 54 50 .. .. .. .. 1966 … … … 364 .. .. 64 65 .. .. .. .. 1967 … … … 414 327 79 66 56 132 254 78 354 1968 … … … 420 337 80 73 56 140 269 80 360 1969 … … … 395 340 86 69 64 134 267 79 332 1970 … … … 396 342 86 91 66 126 283 83 342 1971 … … … 459 380 83 85 78 151 314 83 407 1972 … … … 480 416 87 88 93 155 336 81 410 1973 … … … 465 395 85 82 82 151 315 80 391 1974 … … … 599 521 87 154 104 185 443§ 85§ 527 1975 … … … 509 434 85 96 79 187 362§ 84§ 445 1976 … … … 565 459 81 91 93 155 339§ 81§ 493 Not available. * Up to 1966 including incidents written off as "no crime" after the end of the calendar year in which the incident was recorded; from 1967 excluding all such incidents. † Figures are not available before 1967 because such information was not then collected for offences initially classified as manslaughter or infanticide. ‡ Excluding a small number of offences where all suspects were either discharged or acquitted or had convictions quashed on appeal in such a way as to indicate tha[...] although there was an offence of homicide the suspects concerned were not involved. Excluding cases where a court decision was pending at 1st June 1977 There was one such case in 1974, two in 1975 and 43 in 1976.