HC Deb 26 October 1993 vol 230 cc551-2W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each of the last five years and for the current year to date (a) the number of cases of (i) rape and (ii) attempted rape on males that have been reported and (b) the number of successful convictions that have ensued in (i) and (ii).

Mr. Maclean

The available information relates to the number of male offenders cautioned and convicted of acts of non-consensual buggery and is given in the table. Data for 1993 will not be available until autumn 1994.

Male offenders cautioned and convicted at all courts of certain buggery offences 1988–92
England and Wales Number
Offence/Year Cautions Convictions
Buggery by a man with a male person of the age of 16 or over without consent
1988 n/a 18
1989 11 15
1990 10 13
1991 6 14
19921 6 15
Attempt by a man to commit buggery with a male person of the age of 16 or over without consent
1988 n/a 5
1989 n/a 2
1990 2 2
1991 n/a 2
19921 2 2
1 Provisional.

n/a = Not available.