asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will give the figures for the first six months, or longer period

NUMBER OF CRIMES RECORDED BY THE POLICE
Crime				January to September 1979	Percentage increase/decrease on first 9 months of 1978
Serious assault*	…	…	…	2,431	+3
Rape/assault with intent to ravish	…	…	…	245	-5
Robbery and assaults with intent to rob	…	…	…	2,941	No change
Housebreaking	…	…	…	82,881	No change
* Separate figures are not available within this category for assaults to severe injury or danger to life.

Figures for homicide are published only on a full-year basis because of the degree of variation in numbers between those initially treated as homicide and the final figures.