§ Mr. David Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will introduce legislation to seek to establish two categories of murder—capital and non-capital murder—on the basis of an amended version of the Homicide Act 1957.
§ Mr. Biggs-Davisonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will publish figures of murders committed during the last five years ended 1977 for which convictions were, and were not, obtained.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesIn a case of homicide it is not possible in the absence of a court decision to distinguish between offences of murder, manslaughter and infanticide. Tables 9.2 and 9.3 of Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1977—Cmnd. 7289—show the information for homicide over the period 1973 to 1977.