Written Question·Home Office·UIN 120923
Prosecutions
Tabled: 16 March 2026
Answered: 24 March 2026
Question
Zarah Sultana
Your Party — Coventry South
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance or oversight mechanisms are in place to ensure that police forces do not lose prosecutions due to the expiry of statutory time limits; and whether the Government plans to review safeguar
Answer
Sarah JonesThe Home Office publishes official statistics on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in England and Wales and their investigative outcomes on a quarterly basis. This includes outcome type 17 “Prosecution time limit expired”, and the r...
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