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Average (mean) and highest end-of-year performance-related, non-consolidated bonuses paid for the last four performance years.
£
	Average	Highest
2008-09	9,225	15,000
2007-08	9.952	22,000
2006-07	9,577	20,000
2005-06	6,868	15,000

Policing and Crime Act 2009

Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what steps he plans to take to ensure that training on the implementation of Part 2 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 is cascaded to front-line officers; [320043]

(2) what steps he is taking to train police officers for the introduction of the Policing and Crime Act 2009, with particular reference to the use of the new powers introduced under Part 2 of that Act. [320044]

Mr. Hanson: The National Policing Improvement Agency's (NPIA) Operational, Specialist and Leadership Training Courses are affected by the Policing and Crime Act 2009. These courses are currently being updated to cover the new legislation and accountabilities.

All NPIA training courses and learning resources are regularly updated and reviewed by the NPIA Legal and Diversity Review Team.

Rape

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of women (a) in each age group, (b) in each area and (c) of each ethnicity raped in each of the last 10 years. [320177]

Mr. Alan Campbell: Since the introduction of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in May 2004, data for offences of rape of a female have been broken down into three victim age groups. The age groups are: aged 16 and over, children under 16 and children under 13. Prior to May 2004, the Home Office had not been able to identify the age group of the victim. The data for 2004-05 to 2008-09 are shown in Table 1.

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Data for total offences of rape of a female by police force area for 1999-2000 to 2008-09 are shown in Tables 2a and 2b. The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in April 2002 and figures before and after this date are not directly comparable. Data for
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1999-2000 to 2001-02 are shown in Table 2a and data for 2002-03 to 2008-09 are shown in Table 2b.

Information on ethnicity of victims is not held centrally.

Table 1: Recorded offences of rape of a female by age group, 2004-05 to 2008-09
	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Rape of a female(1)	693	61	25	145	169
Rape of a female aged 16 and over	8,192	8,725	8,222	7,586	7,781
Rape of a female child under 16	3,014	3,153	2,853	2,413	2,532
Rape of a female child under 13	970	1,388	1,524	1,485	1,647
Total	12,869	13,327	12,624	11,629	12,129
(1) The Sexual Offences Act 2003 introduced in May 2004 altered the definition and coverage of sexual offences. A small number of offences continue to be recorded relating to offences repealed by the Act; while these may continue to be legitimately recorded for offences prior to May 2004 it is also possible that some may have been recorded in these old categories in error, so recent changes based on small numbers should be interpreted with caution.

Table 2a: Recorded offences of rape of a female by police force area, 1999-2000 to 2001-02
	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02
Avon and Somerset	166	188	302
Bedfordshire	92	81	89
Cambridgeshire	97	102	144
Cheshire	62	80	69
Cleveland	45	36	54
Cumbria	33	37	44
Derbyshire	98	102	113
Devon and Cornwall	150	168	165
Dorset	61	67	108
Durham	58	45	71
Dyfed-Powys	49	46	46
Essex	184	153	190
Gloucestershire	63	85	49
Greater Manchester	512	508	526
Gwent	94	76	101
Hampshire	228	257	279
Hertfordshire	63	82	81
Humberside	160	134	151
Kent	131	169	171
Lancashire	136	182	174
Leicestershire	141	142	152
Lincolnshire	51	63	103
London, City of	1	2	9
Merseyside	219	214	256
Metropolitan police	2,142	2,044	2,336
Norfolk	82	103	103
Northamptonshire	42	56	91
Northumbria	227	208	259
North Wales	88	89	111
North Yorkshire	39	46	65
Nottinghamshire	210	211	227
South Wales	115	115	112
South Yorkshire	114	112	105
Staffordshire	175	182	197
Suffolk	80	94	112
Surrey	72	119	110
Sussex	198	237	215
Thames Valley	218	245	269
Warwickshire	19	25	30
West Mercia	86	105	169
West Midlands	481	499	553
West Yorkshire	449	348	406
Wiltshire	78	72	85
Total	7,809	7,929	9,002
Note: The data in this table are prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years.

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