Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 13 February 2014 to Question 184190, how many sexual offences were prosecuted which involved a person aged under 18 years old where that person was (a) matched and (b) unmatched with a registered intermediary since 2013.
Data in the following table provides information on requests for registered intermediaries in cases involving sexual offences, as well as other types of offences for the years 2014 and 2015 and for the year to date 2016 as at 03 November.
2014 |
| Non-sexual offences | Sexual offences | ||
|
| 0-17 | 18+ | 0-17 | 18+ |
CPS | Matched | 90 | 164 | 349 | 189 |
| Unmatched | 6 | 13 | 32 | 23 |
| Cancelled | 9 | 10 | 10 | 4 |
Police | Matched | 382 | 359 | 978 | 575 |
| Unmatched | 16 | 12 | 36 | 12 |
| Cancelled | 22 | 5 | 22 | 16 |
Solicitor | Matched | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Cancelled | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 526 | 565 | 1427 | 819 | |
Grand Total | 3337 | ||||
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2015 |
| Non-sexual offences | Sexual offences | ||
|
| 0-17 | 18+ | 0-17 | 18+ |
Courts | Matched | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
CPS | Matched | 195 | 199 | 467 | 207 |
| Unmatched | 100 | 60 | 87 | 39 |
| Cancelled | 13 | 7 | 23 | 1 |
Police | Matched | 738 | 392 | 1574 | 736 |
| Unmatched | 144 | 56 | 213 | 74 |
| Cancelled | 62 | 19 | 63 | 23 |
Solicitor | Matched | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Cancelled | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 1254 | 734 | 2429 | 1080 | |
Grand Total |
| 5497 | |||
| |||||
2016 | Non-sexual offences | Sexual offences | |||
0-17 | 18+ | 0-17 | 18+ | ||
Courts | Matched | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Unmatched | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| In Progress | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
CPS | Matched | 172 | 177 | 508 | 211 |
| Unmatched | 16 | 25 | 43 | 10 |
| In Progress | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Cancelled | 5 | 6 | 7 | 2 |
Police | Matched | 793 | 328 | 1807 | 742 |
| Unmatched | 81 | 27 | 104 | 20 |
| In Progress | 9 | 3 | 12 | 4 |
| Cancelled | 38 | 6 | 62 | 20 |
Solicitor | Matched | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Unmatched | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 1118 | 576 | 2551 | 1011 | |
Grand Total |
| 5256 | |||