Rape: Prosecutions
(asked on 13th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of cases of suspected rape were given No Further Action as a result of insufficient evidence to proceed in each of the last three years.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of suspects, flagged as rape suspects, referred to prosecutors for a pre-charge decision and the number of decisions not to prosecute suspects following the charging decision.
The table below shows the volume and percentage of legal decisions not to prosecute for evidential reasons in each year from 2016/17 to 2018/19.
| 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | |||
| Volume | % | Volume | % | Volume | % |
Legal Decision: No Further Action: Evidential | 2061 | 31.2% | 1786 | 29.7 | 1816 | 35.5 |
Data Source: Case Management Information System