§ Sir John Langford-Holtasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report tables giving the relevant details for the years 1956 to 1977—and to 1978, if available—of the statistics relating to homosexual offences, Appendix 1, tables I-V.
§ 5 Mr. BrittanOn the assumption that the reference is to the appendix of the report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (the Wolfenden report, 1957), the information requested is published annually in " Criminal Statistics, England and Wales ". In the volume for 1977, Cmnd. 7289, the relevant tables, in the order shown in the report above-mentioned, are tables 2.9, 1(a),(a),(a) with 6, 1(a) with 2, and 1(a); separate figures on persons sentenced at the Crown court for importuning and on the length of immediate imprisonment imposed at magistrates' courts for 250W importuning are not readily available. The relevant offence classifications are 16, 17, 18 and 187B.
The information relating to 1978 that is at present available is given as follows: