Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of cases pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service resulted in unsuccessful outcomes due to victim issues in each quarter since the third quarter of the 2018-19 financial year.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the outcomes of completed prosecutions, as a count of the number of defendants finalised, and collates the data collected by quarter. Each non-conviction (or ‘unsuccessful’) outcome is allocated a reason, indicating the principal reason the defendant was not convicted.

The table below shows the number and proportion of prosecution outcomes resulting in a non-conviction due to victim or complainant issues in each quarter from Q3 2018-19 (October to December 2018) to Q4 2019-20 (January to March 2020).