Question follow-through · 56428

Harassment: Prosecutions

To ask the Solicitor General, what information her Department holds on the number of (a) prosecutions brought and (b) successful prosecutions in relation to offences contrary to Section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986 in each year since 1995.

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Answering body
Attorney General
Tabled
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
5 Jun 2025
Answer
5 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Solicitor General, what information her Department holds on the number of (a) prosecutions brought and (b) successful prosecutions in relation to offences contrary to Section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986 in each year since 1995.

  2. 5 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The table below shows the number of offences charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) by way of section 4A (intentional harassment, alarm or distress) in which a prosecution commenced from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2024. These figures relate to ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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