questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions were discontinued due to the expiry of statutory time limits arising from police administrative delay in each of the last five years.
answerText: The Home Office publishes official statistics on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in England and Wales and their investigative outcomes on a quarterly basis. This includes outcome type 17 “Prosecution time limit expired”, and the r...
heading: Prosecutions