Question follow-through · 18285
Rape: Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of rape trial waiting times on people who have made allegations of rape.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 13 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of rape trial waiting times on people who have made allegations of rape.
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Dec 2024
Answer published
Rape is an abhorrent crime, and its victims are some of the most vulnerable in the criminal justice system. Despite the judiciary prioritising cases involving vulnerable complainants and witnesses, rape victims can wait disproportionately longer the victi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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