§ Mr. Bestasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each of the last 10 years for which figures are available (i) the number of cases of fraud tried on indictment, (ii) the number of defendants convicted and acquitted, both expressed numerically and as a percentage of the whole and (iii) the value of the sums involved.
§ Mr. MellorInformation on offences of fraud and forgery is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary tables (Volume 1) in table S2.1(A) and corresponding tables for earlier years, under offence classifications 51 to 61. The information is summarised in the following table. Corresponding information for 1985 is not yet available. Information on the value of the sums involved is not collected centrally.
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Defendants tried on indictment for offences of fraud and forgery in England and Wales. Numbers of percentages 1975–84 Tried on indictment Acquitted Found guilty Acquitted Found guilty Numbers Percentages 1975 3,845 585 3,260 15 85 1976 4,149 605 3,544 15 85 1977 4,086 534 3,552 13 87 1978 3,898 574 3,324 15 85 1979 3,589 584 3,005 16 84 1980 4,968 827 4,141 17 83 1981 5,392 834 4,558 15 85
Tried on indictment Acquitted Found guilty Acquitted Found guilty Numbers Percentages 1982 5,080 754 4,326 15 85 1983 6,012 749 5,263 12 88 1984 6,330 790 5,540 12 88