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Sexual Offences

Volume 201: debated on Friday 20 December 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of male homosexual rape have been recorded in Her Majesty's prisons in each of the years for which numbers have been recorded; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to amend the law so as to make sexual offences under United Kingdom law but committed outside the United Kingdom actionable in the British courts, particularly in respect of minors.

We have no plans to extend the jurisdiction of our courts in this way.