Current status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 16 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service is undertaking a review of the prosecution of rape allegations and, if so, what the nature of that review is, when it expects it to be completed and whether it will publish its results.
The Crown Office andProcurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) completed its Review of the Investigation andProsecution of Sexual Offences in Scotland last year and published its reportin June 2006. A copy of the Report is available on the COPFS website at: An implementationteam has been established to bring into effect the 50 recommendations. Seventeenof these have been implemented and work is scheduled and underway to implement theothers.