Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018: Convictions
(asked on 22nd March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions for offences under the Assaults on Emergency Workers Act 2018 involving an NHS worker there have been in each of the last three years.
Information on assaults on NHS workers cannot be separately identified from wider assault on emergency worker offences. The information may be held on court record but to be able to identify cases in which an NHS worker specifically was assaulted would require examining individual court transcripts which would be of disproportionate cost.
Information on the number of convictions for the specific offence up to the end of 2020 can be found in our Outcomes by Offence data tool here:
As the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 came into force in November 2018, the 2018 data does not cover the full year.
Improvements to our data processes currently underway have identified a number of convictions at Crown Court for this offence that have been excluded from the data tool linked above. We estimate this will add around a further 1650 convictions over the period since the Assaults on Emergency Workers Act 2018 was commenced. The number of convictions presented in the tool can therefore be considered to undercount by around 1650 over the three year period, and will be updated in May 2022.