Question follow-through · 29282
NHS: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of reported assaults on NHS staff have resulted in prosecution in the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 14 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of reported assaults on NHS staff have resulted in prosecution in the last 12 months.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Feb 2025
Answer published
Assaults can be prosecuted under a range of offences such as common assault, actual bodily harm (ABH) or grievous bodily harm (GBH). The Ministry of Justice does not, however, collate data on the profession of the victim. To do so could only be obtained a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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