To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her most recent estimate is of the proportion of victims of rape who know their attacker. (206502)

The Home Office Statistical Bulletin 03/08, published on 31 January 2008, which is available at

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0308.pdf

indicates that 88 per cent of the most recent serious sexual assaults committed against the victims who responded to the British Crime Survey (BS) Interpersonal Violence Module were committed by someone known to the victim, either as a partner, friend, relative or acquainted in another way such as a colleague from school, work or university.