§ Sir Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of crimes in England and Wales involving sex or violence in each of the last five years in which pornography was found to be a contributory factor.
§ Mr. MellorThe available information on offences of violence against the person and sexual offences recorded by the police is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales" (Tables 2.8 and 2.9 of the issue for 1983, Cmnd. 9349). Information is not collected centrally on whether pornography might have been involved.
§ Sir Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of convictions in England and Wales in each of the five years for producing, publishing or distributing obscene material or for conducting obscene exhibitions.
§ Mr. MellorThe information available to me, which may be incomplete, is published annually under offence classification 86 in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary Tables" — in Vol. 1, Table S1.1(A) for magistrates' courts and Vol. 2, Table S2.1(A) for the Crown Court. Information for 1984 is not yet available.