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<p>We recognise the importance of linking end-to-end data across criminal justice
agencies and are committed to continuing to improve the quality of and access to data
to enable us to develop deeper insights and improve the response to crimes such as
rape.</p><p>We publish regular statistics on adult rape through the CJS Delivery Data
Dashboard. These statistics demonstrate progress on our ambition to more than double
the number of adult rape cases reaching court by the end of this Parliament, and to
return volumes of cases being referred to the police, charged by the CPS and going
to court, to at least 2016 levels. In the year to June 2023 adult rape prosecutions
were up 54% on the year to June 2022, this is the fifth consecutive year we’ve seen
an increase in suspects being brought to trial.</p><p>In October 2023, the Home Office
and Ministry of Justice published guidance and a template Memorandum of Understanding
to support local criminal justice partners to share data for the purposes of monitoring
and improving performance. The Home Office do not hold data on the cost of the development
of this tool but through the Rape Review, the government provided £300,000 to the
Police Digital Service to evaluate and develop guidance on a range of technical solutions
which could be utilised by local agencies to link their data on rape, including the
tool developed by Avon and Somerset Police.</p><p>Avon and Somerset were also the
pioneering police force for Operation Soteria, which has developed new national operating
models for the investigation and prosecution of rape to support police and prosecutors
to ensuring cases are investigated fully and pursued rigorously through the courts.</p>
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