§ Mr. Robert McCartneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the offences in Northern Ireland law which are analogous to those covered by the proposals on address registration in the Home Office consultation paper "Sentencing and Supervision of Sex Offenders"; how many people in Northern Ireland were convicted of those offences over the last three years; of those how many received a custodial sentence; and of those so gaoled, how many were convicted of crimes which did not involve minors and an absence of consent. [36661]
§ Sir John WheelerI have placed in the Library a list of Northern Ireland sexual offences, analogous to those included at annexe A of the Home Office consultation paper "Sentencing and Supervision of Sex Offenders".
Details of persons in Northern Ireland convicted of such offences and sentenced to immediate custody are as follows:
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Persons convicted of sex offences and those sentenced to immediate custody in Northern Ireland 1993 to 19951 Total convicted of sex offences Total given immediate custody 1993 125 65 1994 147 61 1995 179 77 Total 451 203 1 The statistics relate to convictions where the sex offence was the principal offence.