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By Reality Check team
BBC News
The sharp fall in rape prosecutions in England and Wales dominated exchanges between Boris Johnson and the Labour leader Keir Starmer at Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions.
The government published its long-awaited review into how rape is dealt with in the criminal justice system last week, with the justice secretary apologising to victims.
Today, the prime minister and the Labour leader argued about rape prosecutions – we’ve looked at some of their claims:
Starmer: ‘Rape prosecutions have halved since 2016…[and] 98.4% of reported rapes don’t end up in a charge’
In 2015-16, there were 4,643 rape prosecutions in England and Wales.
By 2019-20, they had fallen to 2,102 – so it’s correct to say they have halved.
The review sets out “an ambition to increase the volume of cases progressing through the system so that more cases get to court, and more convictions are delivered, returning to 2016 levels”.
Johnson:…
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