Rape: Prosecutions

(asked on 2nd September 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Matthew Offord Portrait
Matthew Offord
(Conservative - Hendon)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) males and (b) females have been charged with the offence of rape in England in each of the last three years.

Answered by
Michael Ellis Portrait
Michael Ellis
This question was answered on 8th September 2022

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold any data which shows the number of suspects charged with the offence of rape. However, management information is held showing the number of suspects charged, by sex, flagged as involving allegations of rape where the CPS authorised a charge and a prosecution has commenced in each of the last three years ending March 2022. The table below shows the number of decisions to charge, in rape flagged cases by the sex of suspects, where this has been identified.

2019-2020

2020-2021

2021-2022

Female

22

41

24

Male

1,831

1,905

2,179

Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System

Decisions to charge are where CPS is satisfied that the legal test for prosecution, set out in the Code for Crown Prosecutors is met: there is enough evidence to provide a ‘realistic prospect of conviction’ against each defendant and the prosecution is in the public interest.

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