Crime outcomes, England and Wales
Official statistics
The share of offences the police in England and Wales recorded in a year that ended in each outcome – charged or summonsed, an out-of-court disposal, no suspect identified and the rest – for the latest three years to June, as each was first published, from the Home Office's crime outcomes statistics.
Charged or summonsed
8.73%
Year to June 2026 · of 5,246,650 offences recorded
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:26 UTC- Year to June 2024
- Year to June 2025
- Year to June 2026
Source: Home Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
12 rows
| Category | Year to June 2024 | Year to June 2025 | Year to June 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charged/Summonsed | 6.73% | 7.62% | 8.73% |
| Taken into consideration | 0.07% | 0.08% | 0.06% |
| Out-of-court (formal) | 0.86% | 0.80% | 0.81% |
| Out-of-court (informal) | 2.63% | 3.04% | 3.43% |
| Prosecution prevented or not in the public interest | 1.23% | 1.23% | 1.17% |
| Evidential difficulties (suspect identified; victim supports action) | 12.72% | 12.86% | 13.83% |
| Evidential difficulties (victim does not support action) | 25.12% | 24.93% | 24.01% |
| Investigation complete - no suspect identified | 40.17% | 38.60% | 37.56% |
| Action undertaken by another body/agency | 1.31% | 1.33% | 1.29% |
| Further investigation to support formal action not in the public interest | 0.77% | 0.70% | 0.62% |
| Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, resulting from the crime report, has been undertaken and it is not in the public interest to take any further action | 0.41% | 0.42% | 0.44% |
| Offences not yet assigned an outcome | 7.97% | 8.37% | 8.04% |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Home Office
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 8 November 2026, 13:08 UTC
- Raw files fetched
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Verification
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:26 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:26 UTC; 36 of 36 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Home Office; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:08:50Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 36 of 36 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's volumes match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 36 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 36 of 36 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's volumes match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026-06-30 ended 131 days before retrieval (limit 200), from Crime outcomes in England and Wales, year to June 2026: data tables |
| Pass | The hub's police-recorded-crime agrees | Table 1.1's 5,246,650 offences recorded in the year to June 2026 are the ONS's 5,246,650, excluding fraud (1 of 1) |
| Pass | Table 1.1 adds up | 18 of 18 cases of the groups, the offences assigned an outcome and all offences are the sums of their parts |
| Pass | Each share is its offences of all offences | 84 of 84 cases of the shares are their offences over all offences recorded, unrounded within 1e-12 (84 exactly) |
| Pass | Table 2.1 counts the latest year's offences | 1 of 1 cases of the latest year's offences recorded in Table 2.1 are Table 1.1's |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Offences the police recorded in each year, by the outcome assigned to them by the end of it, as Table 1.1 gives them: an offence recorded late in the year has had less time to be assigned one, so the share not yet assigned an outcome is largest for the latest year. Each year is as the Home Office first published it and is not revised, so it may differ from later totals for the same year. Fraud is not included.
- The Home Office's Table 2.1 counts outcomes assigned in the year to offences recorded at any time, a different measure with a higher charge rate; the hub shows Table 1.1, the measure its release leads with.
- Police recorded crime is not accredited official statistics, as the Home Office's tables say.