Question follow-through · 12534
Rape: Youth Courts
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many rapes were tried in the youth court last year and in each of the preceding three years; and of those, for each year, (a) how many resulted in a guilty verdict, (b) how many were sentenced in the youth co
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many rapes were tried in the youth court last year and in each of the preceding three years; and of those, for each year, (a) how many resulted in a guilty verdict, (b) how many were sentenced in the youth co
30 Jun 2026
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30 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice publishes magistrates’ court data on prosecutions and resulting outcomes for rape offences by age of the defendant. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.Although...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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