Written question asked by Julie Morgan (Labour) on Monday, 15 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 18 March 2010. It was answered by Vera Baird (Labour) on Thursday, 18 March 2010 on behalf of the Women and Equalities.

Rape Cases Stern Review

Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what steps she plans to take in response to the Stern Review on the handling of rape cases.

Answer: The Government welcome Baroness Stern's report of her review which recognises the significant improvements made since 1997, but also identifies where more remains to be done to build on this progress.The Department has published an interim government response and will carefully consider the 23 recommendations in the report before publishing a fuller response later this year.Rapists must know that they will not get away with it, whatever the circumstances. They stand a more than one in two chance of conviction.

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