PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Armed Forces: Crimes of Violence (2 January 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many allegations of (a) rape, (b) sexual assault and (c) domestic violence were made to the (i) Royal Military Police, (ii) Royal Naval Police and (iii) Royal Air Force Police in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Karl Turner (Labour)

All allegations of rape, sexual assault and domestic violence made by or against members of the Armed Forces are taken very seriously by the Ministry of Defence. An investigation may be conducted by either the civil or Service police.

The tables below show the number of alleged cases of rape and sexual assault (including assault by penetration) that were investigated, or where the investigation is still ongoing, by each branch of the Service police in each year from 2010 to 2014.

ROYAL NAVY POLICE (RNP) INVESTIGATIONS

YEAR	RAPE (As defined by schedule one of the Sexual Offences Act 2003)	SEXUAL ASSAULT (INCLUDING ASSAULT BY PENETRATION (As defined by schedule two & three of the Sexual Offences Act 2003)
2010	2	1
2011	0	10
2012	0	3
2013	1	11
2014	1	9

ROYAL MILITARY POLICE (RMP) INVESTIGATIONS

YEAR	RAPE(As defined by section one of the Sexual Offences Act 2003)	SEXUAL ASSAULT (INCLUDING ASSAULT BY PENETRATION (As defined by section two & three of the Sexual Offences Act 2003)
2010	19	64
2011	18	48
2012	22	36
2013	23	43
2014	26	40

ROYAL AIR FORCE POLICE INVESTIGATIONS

YEAR	RAPE(As defined by section one of the Sexual Offences Act 2003)	SEXUAL ASSAULT (INCLUDING ASSAULT BY PENETRATION (As defined by section two & three of the Sexual Offences Act 2003)
2010	3	9
2011	2	5
2012	2	4
2013	2	8
2014	1	2

Domestic violence is not a crime classification, but may be recorded under the crime classification of violence, for example battery, assault or grievous bodily harm. For the Service police to establish which offences are as a result of domestic violence would require an individual review of all cases, which could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Anna Soubry (The Independent Group for Change)
2 February 2015