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Prisons

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 9 January 2007, Official Report, columns 546-7W, on prisons, when he expects to make publicly available the results of the trial of the body orifice scanner in the high security prison. [134074]


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Mr. Sutcliffe: There are no plans to make public the results of this trial. It would not be in the public interest to publicise details of Prison Service security mechanisms.

Prisons: Childbirth

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women gave birth while serving a prison sentence in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [133977]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The Prison Service has only routinely kept this information centrally since April 2005. Figures prior to this date are not available.

The following figures show, for the last two years, the numbers of women who gave birth while serving the custodial part of a sentence of imprisonment:

Prisons: Rural Areas

Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has assessed the merits of providing short-term temporary cells in rural areas. [134372]

Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 27 April 2007]: The National Offender Management Service has investigated a wide range of potential temporary accommodation to increase capacity. Part of the 8,000 place capacity-building programme includes ready built modular accommodation which has an expected life span of 10 to 25 years. The early stages of the programme are using land on existing prison sites. Some of these are in rural areas.

Rape: Greater London

Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded rapes there were in each London borough in each of the last 10 years; and what percentage of those recorded rapes led to a conviction in each year, broken down by borough. [133510]

Mr. Coaker: The statistics are not available in the form requested. Recorded rape statistics relate to offences and convictions data relate to offenders. In addition, recorded crime data are published on a financial year basis and conviction data are published on a calendar year basis. For these reasons, the two data sources are not directly comparable.

Figures for the number of offences recorded and the number of convictions are provided in the following tables. Recorded crime data at borough level are available only from 2000-01.


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Table 1: Recorded offences of rape by London borough 2000-01 and 2001-02
Borough 2000-01 2001-02

Barking and Dagenham

48

53

Barnet

48

62

Bexley

32

53

Brent

119

105

Bromley

48

62

Camden

91

96

City of Westminster

114

112

Croydon

102

109

Ealing

98

93

Enfield

58

76

Greenwich

80

94

Hackney

103

108

Hammersmith and Fulham

66

57

Haringey

95

118

Harrow

34

38

Havering

19

35

Hillingdon

31

55

Hounslow

48

71

Islington

72

109

Kensington and Chelsea

34

32

Kingston upon Thames

27

37

Lambeth

163

172

Lewisham

105

115

Merton

19

38

Newham

115

93

Redbridge

38

63

Richmond upon Thames

28

24

Southwark

115

129

Sutton

20

22

Tower Hamlets

78

76

Waltham Forest

74

85

Wandsworth

65

97

Total

2,187

2,489



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Table 2 : Recorded offences of rape by London borough 200 2-03 to 2005-06
Borough 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

Barking and Dagenham

70

56

74

66

Barnet

60

84

84

70

Bexley

43

31

48

36

Brent

87

129

99

97

Bromley

70

47

57

54

Camden

71

52

68

67

City of Westminster

131

119

113

102

Croydon

99

72

90

113

Ealing

107

96

77

101

Enfield

91

83

74

72

Greenwich

119

116

99

120

Hackney

101

118

132

136

Hammersmith and Fulham

74

96

63

56

Haringey

113

91

99

110

Harrow

29

45

50

37

Havering

32

51

30

49

Hillingdon

57

58

52

45

Hounslow

70

65

75

71

Islington

135

97

93

76

Kensington and Chelsea

43

42

36

42

Kingston upon Thames

50

45

37

42

Lambeth

166

126

146

139

Lewisham

150

132

96

85

Merton

44

39

45

39

Newham

152

142

151

112

Redbridge

69

54

72

46

Richmond upon Thames

22

14

22

20

Southwark

141

163

126

126

Sutton

30

27

31

39

Tower Hamlets

105

96

85

85

Waltham Forest

87

87

55

84

Wandsworth

109

96

64

61

Total

2,727

2,569

2,443

2,398

Note: The National Crime Recording standard was introduced in April 2002. Figures for earlier years are therefore not directly comparable.

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