Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of (a) sexual assault and (b) rape were reported in 2017.

Data on the number of police recorded sexual assault and rape offences in England and Wales are published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The latest data, for the year ending September 2017, can be found in Table A4 of the appendix tables, available here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables