§ Mr. Meadowcroftasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the percentage of men found guilty of rape and referred for psychiatric treatment for each of the last five years for which statistics are available;
(2) if he will list the proportion of allegations of rape which the police have (a) investigated and (b) pressed charges on, for the last five years for which statistics are available;
(3) what is the average sentence given to a convicted rapist;
(4) if he will list the number of people convicted of rape for each of the last five years for which statistics are available, broken down into the following age groups under 21, 21 to 30, 31 to 40, 41 to 50, 51 to 60 and over 60 years.
§ Mr. MellorThe readily available information on offences of rape is published annually in 'Criminal Statistics, England and Wales' for recorded offences in table 2.9 of the issue for 1983 (Cmnd. 9349); for proceedings and sentences at magistrates' courts and the Crown Court in tables S1.1(A) and S2.1(A) of the supplementary tables; for the age groups of those in table S4.1(A): and for the distribution of the lengths of prison 825W sentences in table S2.4. The figures for rape include some offences other than under section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956, including offences of aiding and abetting and attempts. No information is readily available centrally on any allegations of rape not investigated by the police or on men found guilty and referred for psychiatric treatment.
§ Mr. Meadowcroftasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research Her Majesty's Government have sponsored into the extent of sexual assaults and rapes not reported to the police.
§ Mr. MellorThe British crime survey of 1984, which gathered information about people's experience of crime from a sample of 11,000 households in England and Wales, included questions designed to measure the extent of sexual assaults on females (including rape), both those reported to the police and those not reported. The first report of this survey "Taking Account of Crime: Key Findings from the Second British Crime Survey" by Mike Hough and Pat Mayhew was published earlier this month as Home Office Research Study No. 85. A copy is in the Library.
§ Mr. Meadowcroftasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the number of people who have been victims of rape for each of the last five years for which statistics are available, broken down into the following age groups: under 21, 21 to 30, 31 to 40, 41 to 50, 51 to 60 and over 60 years;
(2) if he will list the number of reported rapes for each of the last five years for which statistics are available, broken down into days of the week upon which the alleged offence occurred.
§ Mr. MellorThe information requested is not collected centrally. However, some information on the ages of victims of rape in 1973 is to be found in 'Sexual Offences, Consent and Sentencing', Home Office Research Study No. 54 (Table B.2).