Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many allegations of rape were reported to the police in each of the last five years in England and Wales.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of allegations of rape recorded by the police in England and Wales.

The data can be found in the Rape incidents and crime data year ending March 2017 to year ending March 2020 Home Office Open Data Tables, available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables

The Home Office also publishes the outcomes of crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales, including the number of rape offences resolved through a charge. These data can be found at the same link in the crime outcomes tables.