Appearances and Speeches

Since September 2022, when we completed the rollout of pre-recorded cross-examination (Section 28) for victims of sexual and modern slavery

The NHS Long Term Plan commits this Government to investing at least £2.3 billion of extra funding a year to expanding and transforming ment

The Ministry of Justice does not hold information on the average length of time between a case being reported where section 28 evidence is r

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on prosecutions, convictions and sentence outcomes in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: Decem

A trial which will no longer take place on the date set aside for it in the court calendar is referred to as a ‘vacated’ trial.

Supporting victims of crime remains a top priority of this Government.

Sentencing is a matter for our independent courts.

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of convictions for the offence ‘8.19 Disclose private sexual photographs and films with

Numbers of people were convicted of repeat offences of exposure in each year since 2015, broken down by sentence type, are available in the

We do not collect specific information on when a victim is offered the support of an Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (ISVA); however, we