Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 6
6
Deferred
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Mandate Home and Justice Secretaries to detail criminal justice data linking aims and methodology
Recommendation
As the Government’s data note on the performance scorecards makes clear, it is not possible to accurately track individual offences or defendants across the criminal justice system for the purposes of statistical reporting. We welcome the fact that work to link this data better is ongoing and a ‘high priority’. However, we believe transparency is Investigation and prosecution of rape 77 critical to this and we recommend that, once the scoping stages are completed, the Home Secretary and Justice Secretary write to us with further detail on this piece of work, including aims, methodology and timescales.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government outlined funding and progress for Operation Soteria, aiming for a national operating model by June 2023, but did not address the committee's specific request for further details on data linking work, its aims, methodology, and timescales.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
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Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
The Government is committed to transparency in its efforts to improve the criminal justice system’s response to rape, as highlighted by the publication of six-monthly progress updates and quarterly CJS delivery data dashboards, which bring data together from across the criminal justice system. The Government recognises that the ability to link data across criminal justice agencies would lead to agencies being able to track individual cases more accurately across the system; identify where processes are leading to delays and determine how these delays could be avoided. We are exploring potential ways to do this, including how to link data across criminal justice system agencies at a local level, for example, by building on work undertaken by Avon and Somerset Police and CPS South West, who have produced a proof-of-concept tool to present detailed historical data on the progression of cases across criminal justice system. More work is required to assess whether and how this proof-of-concept tool could be made automated and able to present live data (which it currently does not). Ministers representing the criminal justice agencies—the Home Secretary, Attorney General and Lord Chancellor—commit to write with further detail about the efforts to improve the connectedness of data across the criminal justice system.
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