Prosecutions
Commons · Question 120924 · 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, what recourse is available to victims when prosecutions collapse due to police case management.
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...