Number of individuals prosecuted and convicted for rape offences in England & Wales in 2024–2025, broken down by the defendant's self-reported ethnicity

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting the following information:

• The number of individuals prosecuted for rape offences in England & Wales in 2024–2025, broken down by the self-reported ethnicity of the defendant.
• The number of individuals convicted of rape offences in England & Wales in 2024–2025, broken down by the self-reported ethnicity of the defendant.

Please provide the data in a table format, with ethnicity categories as recorded in your datasets.

Response

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does hold information falling within the scope of your request.

Please find attached for your reference an excel spreadsheet labelled ‘13533 DATA’, the caveats appended to that data should be noted when considering the disclosure.

By way of assistance the data shows, for the 2024/25 financial year, rape flagged prosecutions and convictions for defendants, broken down by defendant self-declared ethnicity.