§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in rank order for each police force in England and Wales, the number of females who have reported being raped during the last 12 months.
§ Mr. JackThe available information held centrally relates to the number of notifiable offences of rape recorded by the police and is given in the table. Although there are no figures for the number of offences reported, recent Home Office research shows that 61 per cent. of allegations of rape were recorded by the police in 1989.
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Notifiable offences of rape recorded by the police by police force area—1991 England and Wales Police force area Number of offences Metropolitan police district 1,158 Greater Manchester 227 West Midlands 214 West Yorkshire 213 Hampshire 136 Kent 115 Nottinghamshire 111 Thames Valley 99 Avon and Somerset 98 Northumbria 93 South Wales 91 Essex 83 South Yorkshire 74 Sussex 73 Merseyside 63 Cambridgeshire 62 Norfolk 62 Suffolk 61 Humberside 61 Devon and Cornwall 60 Lancashire 58 North Wales 55 Staffordshire 53 West Mercia 50 Dorset 49 Dyfed-Powys 47 Cleveland 47 Wiltshire 46 Bedfordshire 46 Hertfordshire 46 Durham 45 Northamptonshire 44
Police force area Number of offences Surrey 41 Gwent 38 Lincolnshire 38 Leicestershire 38 Cheshire 37 Derbyshire 34 Gloucestershire 23 Cumbria 19 North Yorkshire 19 Warwickshire 18 City of London — England and Wales 4,045