Written question asked by Kim Johnson (Labour) on Monday, 22 June 2026, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 24 June 2026. It was answered by Ellie Reeves (Labour) on Tuesday, 30 June 2026 on behalf of the Attorney General.

Emergency Services: Crimes of Violence

Question: To ask the Solicitor General, how many charges for Assault on an Emergency Worker were not proceeded with by the CPS in each of the last 5 years.

Answer

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) holds management information on offences derived from its Case Management System (CMS) and associated Management Information System (MIS).

CPS offence-level data can be used to report on the number of offences charged and reaching a first hearing at the magistrates’ court. However, this data does not include outcome information for specific offences.

Accordingly, the CPS does not hold centrally retrievable data to identify how many charges for Assault on an Emergency Worker were not proceeded with. To obtain this information would require a manual review of individual case files.

However, to provide context on the volume of cases involved, the table below shows the number of offences for Assault on an Emergency Worker which were charged and reached a first hearing at the magistrates’ court over the last five calendar years under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018:

Calendar Year	Offences
2021	34,852
2022	33,073
2023	34,135
2024	38,847
2025	36,074

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Type: Written question
Reference: 11764
Session: 2026-27
Subjects: Crimes of violence Emergency services Prosecutions
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

Emergency Services: Crimes of Violence

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