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<table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold any data
which shows the number of suspects charged with the offence of rape. However, management
information is held showing the number of suspects charged, by sex, flagged as involving
allegations of rape where the CPS authorised a charge and a prosecution has commenced
in each of the last three years ending March 2022. The table below shows the number
of decisions to charge, in rape flagged cases by the sex of suspects, where this has
been identified. <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2019-2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-2022</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>1,831</p></td><td><p>1,905</p></td><td><p>2,179</p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="3"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Decisions
to charge are where CPS is satisfied that the legal test for prosecution, set out
in the Code for Crown Prosecutors is met: there is enough evidence to provide a ‘realistic
prospect of conviction’ against each defendant and the prosecution is in the public
interest.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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