Written Question·Home Office·UIN 3953

Homicide: Children

Tabled: 3 September 2024
Answered: 11 September 2024

Question

Mark Pritchard

ConservativeThe Wrekin

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

Dame Diana Johnson
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...

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