HC Deb 29 January 1959 vol 598 cc147-8W
109. Mr. E. Johnson

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were convicted in the years 1955, 1956, 1957, and 1958, respectively, in the Metropolitan Police area, for offences under Section 32 of the Sexual Offences Act, 1956.

Mr. R. A. Butler

320, 320, 307 and 284, respectively. Section 32 of the Sexual Offences Act came into force only on 1st January, 1957. The figures for 1955 and 1956 relate to the corresponding offences under Section 1 of the Vagrancy Act, 1898.