§ Mark TamiTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals were charged with serious sexual offences and given bail in each of the last five years. [150801]
§ Paul GogginsThe information requested is not available.
Estimates of police and magistrates' courts remand decisions for England and Wales, broken down by type of offence (i.e. indictable, summary non-motoring and summary motoring offences), are published in chapter 5 of Criminal Statistics England and Wales 2002 Cm 6054.
Of those males received into prison during 2002 under an immediate custodial sentence for a sexual offence it is known that 52 per cent. had previously been remanded in custody.