§ Mr. AmessTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the murder rate per 1,000 of the population in the constituency of Basildon in 1989.
§ Mr. John PattenThe available information is that there were 11 homicides recorded by the Essex police force in 1989, a rate of 0.008 per 1,000 population.
§ Mr. AmessTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were(a) charged with and (b) convicted of the killing of children in (i) England and Wales and (ii) the Basildon constituency in each year since 1965.
§ Mr. John PattenThe numbers of persons indicted and convicted for homicide offences are published annually in Table 4.7 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales", copies of which are available in the Library. The number of such cases where one or more victims was less than 16 years of age are given in the table for the years 1982–88. Information on homicides in the Basildon constituency is not available, but figures for the Essex police force area for the years 1982–88 are included; corresponding figures for the years 1965–1981 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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Convicted of homicide Year Indicted for homicide Murder Sec. 2 manslaughter Other manslaughter Infanticide 1987 1 — 1 — — 21988 3 — — 2 1 1 As at 1 June 1989. 2 1988 figures are not yet complete: there were 277 suspects for whom court proceedings were not completed by 1 June 1989.