Prosecutions
Commons · Question 120921 · Tabled 16 Mar 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 24 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Zarah Sultana
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions were discontinued due to the expiry of statutory time limits arising from police administrative delay in each of the last five years.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 24 Mar 2026
The Home Office publishes official statistics on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in England and Wales and their investigative outcomes on a quarterly basis. This includes outcome type 17 “Prosecution time limit expired”, and the r...