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Crimes of Violence

Asked by Dr Neil Shastri-HurstConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 3 September 2025UIN 70043

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of recorded violent crimes resulted in a (a) charge and (b) summons in the last 12 months.

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson

The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of violence against the person offences, and their investigative outcomes, including those assigned a charge/summons outcome, recorded by the police in England and Wales, on a quarterly basis. The latest information, to the year ending March 2025, has been published on 24th July, and can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/police-recorded-crime-and-outcomes-open-data-tables

It is not possible to separately identify charges and summonses.

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