§ Mr. CorbettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reports of physical attacks on women there have been in each of the last 25 years in England and Wales; and how many resulted in(a) a charge, (b) a prosecution and (c) a conviction.
§ Mr. John PattenInformation on notifiable offences of violence against the person is published annually in table 2.8 of "Criminal Statistics England and Wales". Regular information on the sex of victims of such offences is not reported separately to this Department by police forces in England and Wales. However, detailed information on homicide is presented in chapter 4 of that publication. In addition, results obtained from a special survey of violent crime recorded by the police and from the 1988 British crime survey were published in Home Office research bulletin No. 27. Information on prosecutions and convictions is not collected in sufficient detail to identify the sex of victims.