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<p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A
response to the Hon gentlemen Parliamentary Question of 22.03 is attached.</p><p>
</p><p>The Rt Hon. the Lord Dobbs</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p>30
March 2023</p><p>Dear Lord Dobbs,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive
of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking
for the number of rape allegations made to the police in England and Wales for the
last five years and how many of those resulted in (a) prosecution, and (b) conviction
(HL6736). The two main sources of crime statistics are police recorded crime and the
Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). The CSEW only provides estimates of the
prevalence of crime and different crime types as experienced by victims, which may
not always be reported to the police.</p><p>The most up to date figures we have published
on rape offences recorded by the police can be found in Appendix table A4 [1], published
as part of the Crime in England and Wales; year ending September 2022 [2] . This table
provides police recorded rape offences back to 2002. Table 1 shows a subset of table
A4 providing the number of rape offences back to the year ending March 2017.</p><p>Our
most recent Sexual offences in England and Wales overview: year ending March 2022
[3] publication provides data on the number of rape incidents recorded by the police.
These data are provided in Table 12 for the year ending March 2021 and Table 13 for
the year ending March 2022 in the associated Sexual offences prevalence and victim
characteristics [4] tables.</p><p>Unfortunately, we do not hold data on how these
offences are treated by the criminal justice system. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
are primarily responsible for court statistics so will hold information on prosecutions
and convictions. They publish statistics [5] each quarter which might be of help to
you. You can contact MoJ via email at ESD@justice.gov.uk. It may also be beneficial
to contact the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) as they collate information on prosecution
by crime type. You can contact them via Enquiries@cps.gov.uk.</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor
Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Police recorded rape offences, year ending
March 2017 to year ending September 2022 England and Wales</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Offence</strong></p></td><td><p>Apr
2016 to Mar 2017</p></td><td><p>Apr 2017 to Mar 2018</p></td><td><p>Apr 2018 to Mar
2019</p></td><td><p>Apr 2019 to Mar 2020</p></td><td><p>Apr 2020 to Mar 2021</p></td><td><p>Apr
2021 to Mar 2022</p></td><td><p>Oct 2020 to Sep 2021</p></td><td><p>Oct 2021 to Sep
2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Rape</strong></p></td><td><p>42,063</p></td><td><p>55,004</p></td><td><p>59,921</p></td><td><p>59,104</p></td><td><p>55,652</p></td><td><p>69,905</p></td><td><p>62,866</p></td><td><p>70,633</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source:
Police recorded crime from the Home Office</p><p> </p><p>[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables</p><p>[2]
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingseptember2022</p><p>[3]
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/sexualoffencesinenglandandwalesoverview/march2022</p><p>[4]
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/sexualoffencesprevalenceandvictimcharacteristicsenglandandwales</p><p>[5]
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly</p><p>
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