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Employment: Sexual Harassment

Asked by Rebecca Long BaileyLabourMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 7 July 2025UIN 63311

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions were brought for workplace sexual harassment under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in each of the last five years.

Answered by Sarah Sackman

Statistics collated centrally by the Ministry of Justice on the criminal offences under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 do not separately identify perpetrators prosecuted, convicted or sentenced to crimes involving sexual harassment, or the location of where the offence took place.

Collating such information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

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