§ Vera BairdTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many rape(a) complaints, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions there were (i) in total and (ii) in each county in England and Wales in (A) 2000 and (B) 2001. [23354]
§ Mr. Keith BradleyThe number of rape complaints is not collected centrally, but the available information relating to the number of recorded crimes of rape, together with the number of persons proceeded against and convicted of rape, by police force area for 2000 are shown in the table.
All the figures in the table relate to the rape of males and females. The two sets of figures shown in the table are not directly comparable as recorded crime is offence based and court proceedings are person based.
Statistics for 2001 are not yet available.
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Rape—number of recorded offences and persons proceeded against and convicted by police force area in 2000 Police force area Recorded offences Persons proceeded against1 Persons convicted1 Avon and Somerset 175 59 13 Bedfordshire 87 31 5 Cambridgeshire 104 27 4 Cheshire 83 33 13 Cleveland 45 18 8 Cumbria 27 7 3 Derbyshire 116 37 11 Devon and Cornwall 178 29 15 Dorset 84 21 14 Durham 60 40 3
Rape—number of recorded offences and persons proceeded against and convicted by police force area in 2000 Police force area Recorded offences Persons proceeded against1 Persons convicted1 Essex 170 38 6 Gloucestershire 90 20 8 Greater Manchester 555 121 44 Hampshire 284 91 23 Hertfordshire 73 28 6 Humberside 152 26 6 Kent 178 50 20 Lancashire 172 73 15 Leicestershire 140 37 8 Lincolnshire 68 28 11 London, City of — 1 2 Merseyside 212 68 9 Metropolitan police 2,217 340 110 Norfolk 106 14 5 Northampstonshire 49 4 6 Northumbria 239 94 19 North Yorkshire 54 15 7 Nottinghamshire 255 59 19 South Yorkshire 127 47 7 Staffordshire2 195 — 15 Suffolk 94 14 5 Surrey 119 19 4 Sussex 257 47 9 Thames Valley 273 45 15 Warwickshire 25 6 2 West Mercia 114 20 5 West Midlands 546 156 37 West Yorkshire 405 135 41 Wiltshire 73 9 4 Dyfed Powys 47 25 5 Gwent 106 25 10 North Wales 101 24 4 South Wales 125 65 22 England and Wales 8,580 2,046 598 1 Data are given on a principal offence basis. Persons shown as convicted may have been proceeded against in earlier years. 2 Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against at magistrates courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust at a detailed level and have been excluded from this table. Source:
Home office Crime and Criminal Justice Unit.