HC Deb 17 March 1988 vol 129 c657W
36. Mr. Nicholas Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of homicides in 1958, 1968, 1978 and 1987.

Mr. John Patten

The information up to 1986 is published in table 4.1 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1986" (Cm. 233), a copy of which is in the Library. Corresponding information for 1987 is not yet available.