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...