Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve conviction rates for rape and sexual assault offences.
In June 2021, in response to falling rates of prosecutions in rape and serious sexual offence cases and concerns around victims feeling they are not able to pursue their case, this government published the end-to-end Rape Review report and action plan.
The Action Plan sets out transformative action across the Criminal Justice System to address the reasons for the decrease in prosecutions since 2016 across four areas: