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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:

1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006: 106

1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007: 98

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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