Attorney General written question – answered at on 17 November 2025.
Jonathan Pearce
Labour, High Peak
To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates in cases of violence against women and girls.
Ellie Reeves
Party Chair, Labour Party, The Solicitor-General
This government is committed to halving violence against women and girls. This is my number one priority as Solicitor General.
The CPS’s focus on tackling VAWG is driving an increase in charges across a range of VAWG offences.
For adult rape prosecution, the CPS continues to transform its approach through the implementation of their National Operating Model, based on robust academic evidence from
Operation Soteria. Through this work, there has been substantial increases in referral, charge, and prosecution volumes for adult rape.
Similarly for Domestic Abuse (DA), the CPS and NPCC launched the DA Joint Justice Plan in
November 2024 with the aim to improve partnership working between investigators and prosecutors, and over the last year this has led to increases in charge volumes by 10% and conviction volumes by 7%.
To address the increasing complexity of VAWG offending, and holistic needs of victims, work is ongoing to deliver the activities within the CPS’s VAWG Strategy for 2025-2030. This will ensure that prosecutors have the right skills and tools to prosecute VAWG effectively leading to a positive impact on prosecution rates.
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