PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Slavery (8 September 2014)

To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions in each region the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under sections 57, 58 and 59 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in the last five years.

Asked by:
Lisa Nandy (Labour)

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central record of the offences, category of offences, or a breakdown of the age of victims, on cases referred to the CPS for a charging decision. This information could only be obtained by examining all of the files sent to the CPS for charging advice, which would incur disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Sir Robert Buckland (Conservative)
13 October 2014