§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, further to his reply of 3 March, Official Report, column 146, he will give the reasons why he will not publish a monthly statement of convictions with details of race and colour where known.
§ Mr. MayhewDetails of race and colour of persons convicted in England and Wales are not entered in the court records on which the statistics of court proceedings are based.
§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will give as much information as may be readily available to show for the longest and most convenient stated period of time the rise or fall in as many stated types of crime; to what extent during this period prison sentences for such crimes have risen or fallen; and what effect such sentences have had on the growth or reduction of crime during this stated period of time.
§ Mr. MayhewThe information requested on figures of serious offences recorded by the police and of the use of sentences of imprisonment is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—tables 2.4–2.13 and 7.13–7.14 of the volume for 1980, Cmnd. 8376. Figures of serious offences recorded by the police in 1981 are published in Home Office Statistical Bulletin 4/82, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House. Reconviction rates of persons discharged from prison department establishments are published annually in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales"—table 8.2 of the volume for 1980, Cmnd. 8372. Results of studies on this matter are also published in Home Office Research Studies Nos. 35, 53 and 64.