Recommendation 6

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.