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Charge rate during the Labour 2024– government

Year ending March 2024 → Year ending March 2026 · 2 periods

↑ 32.7%+2.1% percent

Charge rate rose by 32.7% over the period, from 6.4% percent (Year ending March 2024, the level when the government took office) to 8.5% (Year ending March 2026, the latest available).

  1. Inherited level Year ending March 2024: 6.4%
  2. Latest Year ending March 2026: 8.5%
  3. method: latest complete period before start / before end

Changes during this period do not by themselves show what the government caused. Statistics reflect many influences, including earlier decisions, the economy and how the data is collected.

Charge rate: Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 2026ConservativeLabourLabour0%2.5%5%7.5%202420252026Year ending March 2024: 6.4% percent · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 7.3% percent · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 8.5% percent · published 23 July 2026
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Definition and caveats

The percentage of offences recorded by the police in England and Wales in the year to March that had resulted in a charge or summons when the year's outcomes were first published.

Doesn’t measure: Convictions, outcomes assigned after first publication, outcomes for offences recorded in earlier years, or cautions and other out-of-court disposals.