Sexual Offences: Prosecutions

(asked on 29th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many sexual offences leading to prosecution there have been in (a) North Wales and (b) the UK in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
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Robert Buckland
This question was answered on 6th July 2015

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of defendants whose prosecution was completed and where the principal offence at finalisation is categorised as a sexual offence.

During each of the last ten years the number of defendants prosecuted, in (a) North Wales and (b) England & Wales, whose principal offence was identified as a sexual offence, is as follows:

North Wales

England & Wales

2005-2006

113

11,481

2006-2007

118

11,129

2007-2008

106

11,099

2008-2009

125

10,878

2009-2010

99

11,174

2010-2011

162

12,472

2011-2012

125

11,735

2012-2013

124

11,002

2013-2014

145

12,040

2014-2015

225

13,778

Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System

It is not possible to disaggregate figures to show separately the volume and outcome of proceedings for individual offences within the Sexual Offences Category. A single defendant may be charged with more than one offence.

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