§ Mr. Soleyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the number of convictions for taking and driving away motor vehicles for each year from 1968.
§ Mr. BrittanNumbers of findings of guilt for unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle are available separately only for the years 1975–77 and are given in the table below. Numbers of findings of
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guilt for unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle or being carried knowing the vehicle to have been taken and driven away are published annually in "Offences relating to motor vehicles"—Tables 4 and 6, offence group 6, of the volume for 1977—(Cmnd 7349). Numbers of findings of guilt for unauthorised taking etc. or theft of a motor vehicle in the years 1967 to 1977 are to be found in table F of the same publication.
Findings of guilt for unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle England and Wales Number of findings of guilt 1975 49,913 1976 50,377 1977 51,035