Home Department written question – answered at on 19 September 2002.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans there are to lower the statutory age at which a person can be prosecuted for rape.
None. The statutory age at which a person can be prosecuted for rape is 10 (which is also the age of criminal responsibility). The age was lowered from 14 to 10 by the Sexual Offences Act 1993.
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