Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many allegations of rape were reported to the police by (a) women and (b) men in each area of (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2005; how many such allegations resulted in prosecutions; and how many such prosecutions were successful.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
The Home Office does not hold data on allegations of rape reported to the police. The Home Office holds data on the number of rapes recorded by the police. The information is published on a financial year basis and is given in Table A for the requested areas.
The Ministry of Justice holds information on the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of rape. These figures are on a calendar year basis and data are not directly comparable with the figures recorded by the police. This is because cases tried at court may have occurred in a different time period to those recorded by the police and could relate to crimes recorded in previous years. Furthermore, Ministry of Justice figures are based on the number of defendants proceeded against, while police data are based upon the number of victims.
Information on the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of rape can be found in Table B.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals (a) have been reassessed by Atos for personal independence payments (PIPs) in place of disability living allowance, (b) are now in receipt of PIP and (c) did not qualify for PIP in each area of (i) Suffolk, (ii) England and (iii) Wales since 2010.
Answered by Lord Harper
Decisions on claims to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) are made by Departmental Decision Makers and are based on all the evidence presented by the claimant, evidence from health care professionals and advice received by the independent Assessment Providers following an assessment.
The available information on registrations, clearances and awards for claims to PIP by claimants in receipt of Disability Living Allowance, at parliamentary constituency, local authority and regional level, have been published in the data tables accompanying the latest, quarterly statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2014.
Information on the number of claimants currently in receipt of PIP, by a range of regional breakdowns, has been published and can be found at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk. Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm.