§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what number of rapes and attempted rapes were reported to the police in 1973–74.
§ Mr. Alexander W. LyonThe number of offences of rape and attempted rape reported to the police in England and Wales in 1973 was 998. The comparable figure for 1972 was 893. The number of offences of attempted rape is not available separately. The provisional number of such offences recorded in the first quarter of 1974 was 226.