Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 109433

Rape: Trials

Tabled: 28 January 2026

Answered: 3 February 2026

Question

Mr Paul Kohler

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of rape trials in England and Wales that were postponed in each year since 2015; and what the principal reasons were for those postponements.

Answer

Alex Davies-Jones

The Ministry of Justice publishes figures for the volume of ineffective trials and reasons on a quarterly basis in the ‘Trial effectiveness at the criminal courts’ tool: Criminal court statistics quarterly: July to September 2025 - GOV.UK. An ineffective ...

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