You asked
Please could you provide me with historical statistics for homosexual offences organised by city.
I am interested in statistics for Brighton, Leeds, Manchester and Plymouth from 1960 to the present.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Unfortunately, while we do hold data on the recorded offences you have requested, these data are not available at the geographic level you have specified.
The Home Office holds police recorded crime data, and they regularly publish open data tables, which can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
These tables contain a breakdown of police recorded offences at Community Safety Partnership (CSP) level, which is similar or equivalent to Local Authority level. They include figures for Brighton and Hove, Leeds, Greater Manchester, and Plymouth CSPs. These tables cover data from the year ending March 2003, when the National Crime Recording Standard was introduced, and do not include any information on the offender or any further details about the crime other than the category of offence. The Home Office also publish police recorded crime for earlier years but these are only available for England and Wales as a whole:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/historical-crime-data.
The offences of buggery, indecent assault on a male and gross indecency between males were categorised as individual offences in the Home Office Counting Rules until March 2004, and similarly sexual assault on a male aged 13 or over and sexual assault on a male child under 13 became separately identifiable offences from April 2004. You can find the numbers of these offences recorded by the police in England and Wales for each financial year in Appendix Table A4, which is published alongside our quarterly publication: Crime in England and Wales.