Rape: Criminal Proceedings

Home Office written question – answered at on 23 May 2024.

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average wait time is between (a) arrest and charge and (b) charge and trial for rape cases in (i) London, (ii) the rest of England and (iii) Slough.

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average wait time is between (a) arrest and charge and (b) charge and trial for fraud cases in (i) London, (ii) Slough and (iii) the rest of England.

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average wait time is between (a) arrest and charge and (b) charge and trial for murder cases in (i) London, (ii) the rest of England and (iii) Slough.

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average wait time is between (a) arrest and charge and (b) charge and trial for burglary cases in (i) London, (ii) the rest of England and (iii) Slough.

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average wait time is between (a) arrest and charge and (b) charge and trial for domestic abuse cases in (i) London, (ii) the rest of England and (iii) Slough.

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average wait time is between (a) arrest and charge and (b) charge and trial for robbery cases in (i) London, (ii) the rest of England and (iii) Slough.

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average wait time is between (a) arrest and charge and (b) charge and trial for drug-related cases in (i) London, (ii) the rest of England and (iii) Slough.

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The Government has developed a Criminal Justice Dashboard (CJS) Dashboard to bring together data from across the CJS starting at the point at which a crime is recorded by the police, through to completion in the Crown Court. The Dashboard aims to increase transparency, support collaboration and drive improvement at a local level.

The dashboard publishes information on the median number of days taken, from a crime being recorded, to reach an investigative outcome, including charges, for offences recorded by the police in England and Wales. These can be broken down by Police Force Area, and by ‘Victim based crime’, ‘State based Crime’ and ‘adult rape offences’. The latest data can be accessed via the Criminal Justice Dashboard, available here:

https://cjs-dashboard-production.apps.live.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk/quality-justice/police

The Home Office does not hold information on the time between an arrest and a charge, or on the time between a charge and a trial. However, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) holds information on the average number of days taken from charge to main hearing for rape, fraud, murder, burglary, robbery and drug offences at the Crown Court in i) London and ii) the rest of England. These are provided in the table. Data are not available for Slough and data for domestic abuse are not held centrally by the MoJ.

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