§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the percentage rise in the number of people indicted for murder between 1967 and 1981.
§ Mr. MayhewThe number of persons indicted for murder is published annually in "Criminal Statistics,
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1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 £ million £ million £ million £ million £ million Cash Outtum 21.3 24.8 26.3 33.0 40.0 1980–81 Cost Terms 37.1 37.8 36.4 38.9 40.0 England and Wales", table 4.7 of the volume for 1980—Cmnd. 8376. Information for 1981 is not yet available.
§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of convictions for murder each year between 1965 and 1981 would have been classified as capital under the Homicide Act 1957.
§ Mr. MayhewSince the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 there have been no reliable data available for estimating which murders would have been decided to be capital if that had been an issue in the course of a trial. Estimated numbers of capital and non-capital murders for the years 1957 to 1968 were published in "Murder 1957 to 1968".