Sexual Offences: Alternatives to Prosecution

(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 9th June 2020

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

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Offence group

Possession of weapons offences

1082

1058

1758

2093

1644

Sexual offences

603

617

648

633

502

Violence against the person

42185

38420

36514

35054

30134

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