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1170428

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2020
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Government is taking to improve conviction rates for rape and sexual offences.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	2667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2020 answer text <p>Rape is a devastating offence that can have a significant and profound impact on victims, and the CPS is committed to bringing perpetrators of these horrific crimes to justice. The CPS welcomes and accepts all recommendations made in HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate’s ‘Rape Inspection’ report, published in December 2019, and joint work with the police is already underway to make improvements. This work covers a range of areas, including case progression, digital capability and disclosure, expertise, supporting victims, and stakeholder engagement.</p><p> </p><p>The ongoing cross-Government review into this complex area will offer comprehensive findings across the whole criminal justice system, and I look forward to its completion.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 16/01/2020 15:51:01 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1145056

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2019
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Government is taking to improve the conviction rate for rape and sexual offences.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	287542
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><em>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</em></p> answering member constituency Torridge and West Devon answering member printed Mr Geoffrey Cox question first answered 09/09/2019 16:42:25 answering member 1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1541602

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sexual offences were (a) reported, (b) charged and (c) resulted in a conviction in England and Wales in each month since July 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
	tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
	uin	84948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>Information on the number of offences recorded each quarter and the investigative outcomes of crimes including charges recorded by the police in England and Wales by offence category, for sexual offences, is routinely published by the Home Office here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables.</a></p><p>Data on the number of convictions recorded by the police in England and Wales on a quarterly basis can be found in the Outcomes by Offence tool published as part of the Criminal Justice System Statistics publication for convictions here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1113400/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2021-revised-2.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1113400/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2021-revised-2.xlsx</a>.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 16/11/2022 17:45:05 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1452438

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) arrested, (b) charged and (c) convicted under section 53A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in each calendar year since 2016; and what penalty was imposed in cases of conviction.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	142434
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of arrests for notifiable offences, conducted by each police force in England and Wales, on an annual basis.</p><p>Data are held at the offence group level only (for example ‘Violence against the person’ and ‘Sexual offences’). Information specifically on the number of arrests for offences under section 53A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 are not held centrally.</p><p>Data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, the latest of which can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales" target="_blank">Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of charges for notifiable offences, for each police force in England and Wales on a quarterly basis.</p><p>This includes ‘Soliciting for the purpose of prostitution’ under section 53A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.</p><p>Data are published in the ‘Police recorded outcomes’ tables, the latest of which can be accessed here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fpolice-recorded-crime-open-data-tables&amp;data=04%7C01%7CRobert.Davison1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cd7df05ddec0e468bd62208da0b43514a%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637834680988922843%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=CCywUGPdkW7PxQpR6X%2FkceVt6djCAfbtpClN20MUEMY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The Ministry of Justice holds information on convictions under 53A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 up to December 2020, available in the ‘Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code’ data tool, available here:<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987731/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2020.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987731/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2020.xlsx</a></p><p>Use the ‘Offence code’ filter to isolate the following offence:</p><ul><li>16702 - Paying or promising to pay a person to provide sexual services, where that person is subject to exploitative conduct to induce or encourage them to provide those services</li></ul><p>Convictions will populate Row 33 and sentence outcomes will populate rows 34 to 42.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 23/03/2022 16:49:11 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1365427

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of crimes of sexual violence against women and girls in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England; and what assessment her Department has made of the conviction rate for such crimes in those areas in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	68298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>In recent years, the number of sexual offences recorded by the police has increased as forces have improved their recording of these crimes and more victims have come forward to report due to high-profile cases and awareness campaigns.</p><p>The Government welcomes the fact that more victims of sexual offences, which are all too often hidden crimes, are coming forward and reporting these crimes to the police. However, it also recognises that there is more to be done to tackle violence against women and girls generally and, in particular, to improve the outcomes in rape and sexual offence cases.</p><p>In June 2021, we published our end-to-end review of how the criminal justice system handles rape. It set out a robust programme of work to drive improvements at every stage of the criminal justice system’s response to rape. Regularly published scorecards will show how the criminal justice system is performing under a series of key metrics, and regional scorecards will allow us to drill down to see where actions are working well and where improvement is required.</p><p>Furthermore, we have recently published a cross-Government Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy to help ensure that women and girls are safer everywhere – at home, online and in public.</p><p>Finally, for 2021/2022, the Ministry of Justice will provide £150.5 million for victim and witness support services, which includes £51 million to increase support for rape and domestic abuse victims. This year’s Spending Review will deliver access to justice by continuing to invest across the justice system and expanding the support available for users. It will: bolster support for victims of crime by increasing annual funding for Ministry of Justice victim support services to over £185 million by 2024-25, an uplift of 85% from 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 25/11/2021 14:50:48 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1701450

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted under section 53 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	21942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice holds data on the number of offenders convicted under section 53 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, covering the period requested. This is publicly available and can be obtained through the Outcomes by Offence Data tool, using HO offence code: 02418 – Controlling a prostitute for gain.</p><p>The information is published quarterly as part of the Criminal Justice System statistics.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 19/04/2024 13:04:27 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1581654

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that the courts service record the gender of a person convicted of a sexual assault as “male” if they possess male genitalia, regardless of their preferred gender identity.
	tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
	uin	HL5191
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>Courts are required by the Courts Act 2003 and Criminal Procedure Rules to ask defendants to provide name, date of birth and nationality (the latter now only after sentence and in circumstances specified by the relevant rule). If and once an individual is remanded or sentenced into prison custody, HM Prison Service records their legal gender. Where the individual’s self-identified gender differs, this is also recorded, whilst making clear on the record that this is not their legally recognised gender.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to alter these procedures.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 14/02/2023 15:18:00 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1418600

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps he has taken to help improve conviction rates for rape and sexual assaults.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	115907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2022 answer text <p>We are determined to make the criminal justice system far more sensitive to the needs of victims, and relentless in pursuing their perpetrators.</p><p>To meet that aim, we are:</p><ol><li>on track to recruit 20,000 Police Officers by the end of Parliament. We have also recruited 500 new Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) prosecutors and trained 100 Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) specialists;</li><li>rolling out Operation Soteria, a new investigatory model which focuses on the suspect’s, rather than the victim’s, behaviour;</li><li>when the victim of rape gets to trial, we are giving them the option to pre-record their evidence (Section 28) so they are spared the ordeal of giving evidence under the glare of the courtroom;</li><li>increasing funding for victim support services to £185 million by 2024/25, which will increase the number of Independent Sexual and Domestic Violence Advisors we fund to over 1,000;</li><li>extending The Rape Support Fund until March 2023, to ensure support services have the funding stability they need to meet demand. Core funding for rape support centres through this fund has increased by 50% this financial year (21/22), from £8m to £12m per annum;</li><li>introducing a single source of 24/7 support for victims of rape and sexual violence;</li><li>introducing systematic and cultural change to ensure that victims feel supported through our Rape Review Action Plan; and</li><li>our plans for a new Victims’ Law will make sure all victims have confidence that they will be listened to and supported at every step of the way.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 09/02/2022 17:53:19 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1359487

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve conviction rates for rape and sexual assault offences.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	56568
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>In June 2021, in response to falling rates of prosecutions in rape and serious sexual offence cases and concerns around victims feeling they are not able to pursue their case, this government published the end-to-end Rape Review report and action plan.</p><p>The Action Plan sets out transformative action across the Criminal Justice System to address the reasons for the decrease in prosecutions since 2016 across four areas:</p><ul><li>Holding each part of the Criminal Justice System accountable for driving improvement through publication of transparent performance metrics (e.g. on timeliness and quality of cases) and improved governance through a ministerial-chaired taskforce with specific responsibility for implementation of the Rape Review action plan;</li><li>Providing quality support to every victim of rape and sexual assault, which is appropriate to their needs, when they need it;</li><li>Transforming the way the police and CPS investigate and prosecute cases by focusing investigations on the behaviour of the suspect rather than the behaviour of the victim; and</li><li>Improving the victim’s experience of court, without compromising the principle of a fair trial, by reviewing the use of evidence presented in court and ensuring consistent practice in courts across the country.</li></ul> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/10/2021 13:12:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1037995

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people on the sex offenders register have been subsequently convicted of further sexual offences by category of offence in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	206332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>Table 1: Number of offenders<sup>1</sup> convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence and did not receive an immediate custodial sentence for their first sexual offence conviction, England and Wales<sup>2</sup>, annually from year ending June 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year Ending June</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>365</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>394</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>465</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>413</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>389</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer</p><p>Notes:</p><p>1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.</p><p>2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.</p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Number of offenders1 convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence, England and Wales2, annually from year ending June 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year ending June</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>709</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>769</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>852</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>811</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>801</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer</p><p>Notes:</p><p>1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.</p><p>2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office are responsible for management of the sex offender register, the Ministry of Justice does not hold details of offenders on the sex offender register and so can not identify details of any further convictions of these offenders.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 206331 206333 question first answered 16/01/2019 17:09:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel