§ Sir T. Mooreasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many acts of rape have come to the notice of the police during 1959; and what types of punishment were generally imposed.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerI regret that statistics for 1959 are not yet available. In 1958, 391 offences of rape or attempted rape (including unlawful sexual intercourse with women under mental disability) were known to the police. During the same year, 111 persons were found guilty of such offences, of whom 84 were sentenced to imprisonment or preventive detention, four to borstal training, four were sent to an approved school and nine were put on probation.