Private Prosecutions

Ministry of Justice written question – answered on 7 September 2018.

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Photo of Andrew Rosindell Andrew Rosindell NATO Parliamentary Assembly UK Delegation, Co Chair, British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of private prosecutions initiated in the last five years were the result of law enforcement agencies having declined to take prosecutions forward.

Photo of Lucy Frazer Lucy Frazer The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

This data is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

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