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>
The Attorney General\u2019s Office publish breakdowns of the age and gender of complainants in prosecutions of Violence against Women and Girls offences annually, available here:<\/p>
https://www.cps.gov.uk/publication/cps-data-summary-quarter-4-2022-2023<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "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.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1484407/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " 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> 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\u2019s (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> 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> 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> o Running a public consultation on the police requests for third-party material, which can sometimes be unnecessary and disproportionate; and<\/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> 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>"}
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], "questionText" : "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.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1305580/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of allegations of rape recorded by the police in England and Wales.<\/p> The data can be found in the Rape incidents and crime data year ending March 2017 to year ending March 2020<\/strong> Home Office Open Data Tables, available here:<\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables<\/a><\/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>"}
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], "questionText" : "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.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1169556/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " 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> 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> 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\u2019 Pledge to make rape victims\u2019 engagement with the criminal justice system simpler and less distressing through providing targeted information and support.<\/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> 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>"}
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], "questionText" : "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.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1133645/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Home Office does not centrally hold the information requested.<\/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 \u2018Experimental statistics\u2019 in the latest edition of the \u2018Police powers and procedures\u2019 statistical bulletin, available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751215/police-powers-procedures-mar18-hosb2418.pdf<\/a><\/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> However, information on the specific offence are not collected, nor are data on cases which resulted in a person being released under investigation.<\/p>"}
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