§ Mr. FraserTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents in each of the past 10 years have been reported of physical or sexual abuse of a child by the child's blood father out of the total number of such incidents.
§ Mr. John PattenThe information requested is not collected centrally. Estimates of the numbers of children who were victims of certain violent or sexual offences in 1984 were published in table 2 of the Home Office468W statistical bulletin 29/86. Some results from an ad hoc survey of violent crime recorded by the police in 1985–87 and from the 1988 British crime survey were published in Home Office research bulletin No. 27. Information on criminal proceedings for offences involving violence against children in May 1988 was published in Home Office statistical bulletin 42/89. Copies of these publications are available in the Library.