Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sexual crimes in England and Wales have been disposed of by way of a community resolution order in (a) 2020 to date and (b) each of the last five years.
The Home Office publishes data on police recorded outcomes including Community Resolutions. This is available up to the year ending December 2019.
A link to the data can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics
The number of recorded Community Resolution outcomes by year, grouped by offence, in England and Wales, is as follows:
| Year |
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Offence group |
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Possession of weapons offences | 1082 | 1058 | 1758 | 2093 | 1644 |
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Sexual offences | 603 | 617 | 648 | 633 | 502 |
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Violence against the person | 42185 | 38420 | 36514 | 35054 | 30134 |
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