Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of the 55,696 offences of rape recorded by the police in 2020-21 have resulted in (a) charges and (b) completed prosecutions as of 22 February 2022; and how many of those prosecutions were completed within 365 days of the offence.

In June 2021 the Government published its End to End Rape Review Report and Action Plan. During that review, we took a hard and honest look at how the entire criminal justice system deals with rape and in too many instances it simply had not been good enough.

The Action Plan outlined a robust programme of work to achieve a significant improvement, and we are committed to delivering on the actions in order to bring this about.

This includes the publication on a quarterly basis of scorecards to shine a light on the performance of the criminal justice system and give greater transparency.

Further information on recorded rape offences, including time to charge and measures from the CPS and Ministry of Justice, can be found in the Criminal Justice Scorecard for recorded adult rape offences:

CJS scorecard - recorded adult rape offences - Justice data