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Rape: Prosecutions

Answer

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a Case Management System (CMS) which shows the number of defendants where a flag for rape has been added. This flag is applied at the onset of any case referred by the police to the CPS for a charge of rape and remains in place even if the charge is not proceeded with, is amended, or dropped. If a case is referred by the police for a charge other than rape, but subsequently a charge of rape is preferred, the flag is applied at that point.

The tables below show the number of completed prosecutions and convictions in cases where a flag for rape has been added, from 1 April 2006 to the end of September 2015 by quarter. The data provided in the table is in financial quarters.

The CPS’ CMS was introduced during 2004-2005. A national monitoring flag to manage cases where rape offences were referred or later charged was introduced from 1 April 2006. As with any new monitoring system, some variance is expected in the periods immediately following the introduction of a new flagging process.

‘Total completed prosecutions’ refer to the conclusion of a prosecution case against a defendant such as conviction after trial, guilty plea, acquittal, or the prosecution against the defendant being dropped. ‘Convictions’ refer to convictions after trial and guilty pleas.

Quarter	06/07-Q1	06/07-Q2	06/07-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	660	833	869
Convictions	340	457	469

Quarter	06/07-Q4	07/08-Q1	07/08-Q2	07/08-Q3	07/08-Q4	08/09-Q1	08/09-Q2	08/09-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	902	920	910	840	833	849	900	871
Convictions	512	524	502	483	512	526	506	494

Quarter	08/09-Q4	09/10-Q1	09/10-Q2	09/10-Q3	09/10-Q4	10/11-Q1	10/11-Q2	10/11-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	875	854	927	1,024	1,014	956	1,096	1,052
Convictions	492	504	526	618	622	552	637	623

Quarter	10/11-Q4	11/12-Q1	11/12-Q2	11/12-Q3	11/12-Q4	12/13-Q1	12/13-Q2	12/13-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	1,107	955	959	965	985	939	917	938
Convictions	655	610	577	590	637	625	574	593

Quarter	12/13-Q4	13/14-Q1	13/14-Q2	13/14-Q3	13/14-Q4	14/15-Q1	14/15-Q2
Total completed prosecutions	898	991	957	938	1,005	1,050	1,120
Convictions	541	604	599	556	589	606	644

Quarter	14/15-Q3	14/15-Q4	15/16-Q1	15/16-Q2
Total completed prosecutions	1,202	1,165	1,167	1,219
Convictions	666	666	688	691

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

26790

Session

2023-24

Related items

Rape: Prosecutions
Friday, 20 January 2023
Written questions
House of Commons

Subjects

Convictions Prosecutions Rape

Contains statistics

Yes

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