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1653397

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Recommendation 1 of the Joint Inspectorate Phase One report into the police and Crown Prosecution Service response to rape, published in July 2021, what steps she has taken to ensure the accurate and consistent recording of the protected characteristics of rape victims, and if she will publish the relevant data in respect of the victims of rape offences recorded by the police in England and Wales in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	194342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>In April 2022 the Home Office issued guidance to police forces in England and Wales to seek to bring greater consistency to the recording of specific protected characteristics of victims of crime. In doing so, we have followed the approach used in the 2021 Census for England and Wales which will enable meaningful comparisons with the general population and inform the policy and operational response to crime.</p><p>The Attorney General’s Office publish breakdowns of the age and gender of complainants in prosecutions of Violence against Women and Girls offences annually, available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.cps.gov.uk/publication/cps-data-summary-quarter-4-2022-2023" target="_blank">https://www.cps.gov.uk/publication/cps-data-summary-quarter-4-2022-2023</a></p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 20/07/2023 16:05:07 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1484407

registered interest
date	28/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle incidences of rape; and how she is monitoring and measuring the impact of her Department's policies and interventions.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	26798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>Rape and sexual violence are devastating crimes that can have an impact on victims for the rest of their life. The most recent published annual data shows that in the year to December 2021, the volume of police recorded rape offences rose to the highest ever recorded figure at 67,125. We welcome the fact that victims of sexual offences, which are all too often hidden crimes, are bravely coming forward to report to the police.</p><p>In June 2021, the Government published its End-to-End Rape Review Findings and Action Plan. The Action Plan set out a robust programme of work to drive improvements in the criminal justice system’s (CJS) handling of adult rape cases. A year on, we have started to see increases in the number of referrals of adult rape cases from the police to the Crown Prosecution Service and in the number of charges.</p><p>On June 16, we published our second six-monthly Rape Review Progress Update which sets out the important progress that we have made, including:</p><p>o The Home Office is providing £5m in 2022/3 to support the expansion into a further 14 police forces of Operation Soteria, which will develop a new national operating model for police forces to adopt by June 2023;</p><p>o Running a public consultation on the police requests for third-party material, which can sometimes be unnecessary and disproportionate; and</p><p>o Continuing to make progress towards the target of recruiting 20,000 additional police officers by March 2023. As of March 2022, the Home Office had supported the recruitment of 13,578 police officers, and in 2022/3 we have allocated £550m to achieve the target of 20,000 officers by March 2023.</p><p>Accountability and transparency are key to ensuring we achieve our ambition of doubling the volume of adult rape cases reaching court over the Parliament. We developed a CJS delivery dashboard for recorded adult rape offences which brings together data from across the criminal justice system. This is published quarterly, and the most recent national and local dashboards were published on 16 June. By closely monitoring this data we will be able to understand the ongoing impact of our work, drive improvements and share best practice.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 11/07/2022 15:50:35 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1305580

registered interest
date	24/03/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many allegations of rape were reported to the police in each of the last five years in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	174709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of allegations of rape recorded by the police in England and Wales.</p><p>The data can be found in the <strong>Rape incidents and crime data year ending March 2017 to year ending March 2020</strong> Home Office Open Data Tables, available here:</p><p><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%7CKevin.Smith22%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cacd0f459f55144df91fd08d8ef965322%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637522776200153457%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=E8Opg3onzjQgxAC2etV7kAj3ko2CPm01UDG1mF5m02g%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p><p>The Home Office also publishes the outcomes of crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales, including the number of rape offences resolved through a charge. These data can be found at the same link in the crime outcomes tables.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 174713 question first answered 13/04/2021 14:12:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Baroness Harman

1169556

registered interest
date	08/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that male victims of rape and sexual violence receive adequate support when they contact the police.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	1425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>Rape and sexual violence are devastating crimes and the Government is committed to ensuring that every victim has access to the specialist support they need. We expect every report of sexual violence and rape to be treated seriously from the time it is reported, every victim to be treated with dignity, and every investigation and prosecution to be conducted thoroughly and professionally.</p><p>We are deeply concerned by drops in criminal justice outcomes for rape cases, which is why we are conducting a thorough end-to-end review into the criminal justice response to rape. This review will inform a cross-system Action Plan which will seek to reverse this trend and we have committed to publish this later this year.</p><p>The Government is providing £32 million in funding until 2022. This includes £4 million for rape support centres, and £1 million for recruiting more Independent Sexual Violence Advisers. This additional funding forms part of a Rape Victims’ Pledge to make rape victims’ engagement with the criminal justice system simpler and less distressing through providing targeted information and support.</p><p>Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) areas with Government-funded male support centres have nearly quadrupled from 11 in 2018/19 to 41 from 2019/20. This support is in addition to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) funded National Male Rape support helpline (Safeline) and Male Rape Support webchat service (Survivors UK). The Home Office provides specific funding to male victims of rape via Survivors Manchester through the £150,000 National Sexual Violence Support Fund.</p><p>MoJ have also provided £68 million to PCCs in 2019/20 to commission victim support services based on local need, including additional support for victims of sexual violence and abuse, which includes male victims.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 13/01/2020 17:27:50 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1133645

registered interest
date	20/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape
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) released under investigation and (b) released on police bail in cases of rape in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	267293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not centrally hold the information requested.</p><p>From April 2017 the Home Office requested information on a voluntary basis from the police on the number of individuals released on pre-charge bail, broken down by bail length. Data, from a subset of 17 forces, were published as ‘Experimental statistics’ in the latest edition of the ‘Police powers and procedures’ statistical bulletin, available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751215/police-powers-procedures-mar18-hosb2418.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751215/police-powers-procedures-mar18-hosb2418.pdf</a></p><p>The data were collected on a mandatory basis from April 2018 and are intended for publication in the next edition of the release, scheduled for October 2019.</p><p>However, information on the specific offence are not collected, nor are data on cases which resulted in a person being released under investigation.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 25/06/2019 16:30:50 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

754799

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many allegations of rape were reported to the police in each of the last five years in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	6849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes information on the number of rapes recorded by the police by the police forces in England and Wales. These figures are published in Table A4 in the Office for National Statistics publication Crime in England and Wales: Year ending March 2017, available here:<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables</a></p><p>The Home Office does not hold information on the number of people charged with offences of rape. Information on the number of people charged with rape offences is the responsibility of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The CPS publish data on rape in their annual Violence against Women and Girls crime report. The latest publication, for 2015-2016, is available here: <a href="http://www.cps.gov.uk/data/violence_against_women/vawg_2015_16_report.html" target="_blank">http://www.cps.gov.uk/data/violence_against_women/vawg_2015_16_report.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 6847 question first answered 05/09/2017 11:29:23 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Baroness Harman

754802

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape
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 were charged with the offence of rape in each of the last five years in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	6847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes information on the number of rapes recorded by the police by the police forces in England and Wales. These figures are published in Table A4 in the Office for National Statistics publication Crime in England and Wales: Year ending March 2017, available here:<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables</a></p><p>The Home Office does not hold information on the number of people charged with offences of rape. Information on the number of people charged with rape offences is the responsibility of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The CPS publish data on rape in their annual Violence against Women and Girls crime report. The latest publication, for 2015-2016, is available here: <a href="http://www.cps.gov.uk/data/violence_against_women/vawg_2015_16_report.html" target="_blank">http://www.cps.gov.uk/data/violence_against_women/vawg_2015_16_report.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 6849 question first answered 05/09/2017 11:29:23 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Baroness Harman

694248

registered interest
date	24/02/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of whether there will be a change in the number of rape victims who will come forward to report rape crimes as a result of the forthcoming introduction of the non-consensual sex exemption clause for claiming child tax credits for a third child.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	65455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>It will not be necessary for victims of rape to report a crime in order to qualify for the exemption. As the Government outlined in the response on 20 January 2017 those entitled to claim the exception will be able to disclose their non-consensual intercourse to a third party.</p><p>The list of third parties used for the non-consensual sex exception will include health care professionals, social workers and relevant specialist charities. The model is not attempting to pre-empt the criminal justice system and therefore does not include police in the third party model.</p><p>When a report has already been made, the exception will also apply where there is a successful conviction or award of compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority for rape occurring at a time when the child’s conception might have resulted</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 07/03/2017 17:50:25 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

226340

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of reported rape cases were referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for a decision on prosecution in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	226916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested. The Home Office <br>collects data on the number of rapes recorded by the police, but does not hold <br>information on the rapes reported to the police or on the number of cases <br>referred to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). <br><br>The CPS holds and publishes information on the number of rape case referrals <br>for a pre-charge decision they receive from the police.<br><br>Information on the number of rape referrals by the police to the CPS can be <br>found at this link: <br>http://www.cps.gov.uk/data/violence_against_women/rape_key_findings_13_14/rape_t<br>able_1_pre_charge_decisions_0708_1314.csv</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 17/03/2015 15:21:53 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone previous answer version 50334 answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

225229

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many allegations of rape were reported to the police by (a) women and (b) men in each area of (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2005; how many such allegations resulted in prosecutions; and how many such prosecutions were successful.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
uin	226357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold data on allegations of rape reported to the police. The Home Office holds data on the number of rapes recorded by the police. The information is published on a financial year basis and is given in Table A for the requested areas.<br><br>The Ministry of Justice holds information on the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of rape. These figures are on a calendar year basis and data are not directly comparable with the figures recorded by the police. This is because cases tried at court may have occurred in a different time period to those recorded by the police and could relate to crimes recorded in previous years. Furthermore, Ministry of Justice figures are based on the number of defendants proceeded against, while police data are based upon the number of victims.<br><br>Information on the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of rape can be found in Table B.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 18/03/2015 11:47:47 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone attachment 1 file name PQ226357 _table.xls title Table A -Table B published rape data
tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley