§ Mr. Dormandasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state for each year from 1970 to the latest available date, the total numbers of homicides for the United Kingdom and the Northern region, respectively.
§ Mr. MayhewThe information readily available for the police force areas which comprise the Northern region and comparable figures for England and Wales are published annually in "Criminal statistics, England and Wales" (table S. 3.1 of the supplementary tables 1980, Vol. 3). More detailed information on homicides in England and Wales as a whole is to be found in chapter 4 of "Criminal statistics, England and Wales, 1980" (Cmnd. 8376). Information for Scotland, which is on a different basis of counting, is published in "Criminal statistics, Scotland" (table 3.1 of the volume for 1979, Cmnd. 8215) and for Northern Ireland on another basis in "Digest of statistics, Northern Ireland" (table 54 of the volume for 1980).