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Homicide: Children

Commons · Question 3953 · Tabled 3 Sep 2024 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 11 Sep 2024

Question

Asked by Mark Pritchard

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish data on the number of deaths of children through (a) murder and (b) manslaughter in England in (i) 2022 and (ii) 2023.

Answer

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 11 Sep 2024

The Home Office Homicide Index holds information on the age of victims and whether the offence was initially classified as murder or manslaughter. The data are given in the table.Table 1: Offences currently recorded as homicide by initial classification o...