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Offences against Children: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time is for grooming-gang offences to proceed through the judicial system from initial report to final decision.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
15 Jan 2025
Answer
21 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time is for grooming-gang offences to proceed through the judicial system from initial report to final decision.

  2. 15 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Information on timeliness through the criminal justice system is published as part of the quarterly Accredited Official Statistics series “Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly” which is available at the link provided: Criminal court statistics.Information ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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