§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table showing the total number of (a) crimes and offences made known to the police, (b) serious offences involving the use of firearms, (c) crimes of violence and (d) unlawful killings, in the most recent year for which figures are available and 1963, respectively, with any necessary adjustments for differences in the method of calculating figures.
§ Mr. MayhewThe information available is published annually in "Criminal statistics, England and 157W Wales"—tables 2.2, 3.1 and 2.7 of the volume for 1981, Cmnd 8668. Separate information on those recorded offences involving the use of firearms has been collected on a comparable basis only since 1969.