Rape: Convictions and Prosecutions
(asked on 23rd May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of reports of rape resulted in a (a) charge and (b) conviction in each of the last three years.
The Home Office collects and publishes official statistics on the investigative outcomes, including charges, of rape offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, on a quarterly basis.
These can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
The Ministry of Justice collects and publishes information on outcomes (including convictions) by offence, which can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2022
The number of charged/summonsed, and as % of the total number of outcomes, for rape offences recorded in the period by the police in England and Wales, 2019/20 to year ending December 2022 (excluding GMP and Devon and Cornwall police), source: Home Office, Police recorded crime:
Year | Charged | Proportion (%) of investigative outcomes which result in charged/summonsed |
2019/20 | 2,330 | 4.5 |
2020/21 | 2,904 | 5.5 |
2021/22 | 2,911 | 5.1 |
YE Dec 2021 | 2,840 | 5.3 |
YE Dec 2022 | 3,446 | 5.8 |