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Prioritised by police. not yet going far enough. the reality is that we have been talking about the damage and violence against women and girls for so many years, but for too often, i think there's been warm words, too often there's been vague announcements, but without actually the practical changes. so we've had, really, a couple of awful years in terms of those high—profile cases, of awful violence against women and girls, but we also had a period in which the number of rape prosecutions, for example, has plummeted, that we've gone backwards in different areas, as well. so 2022 has to be ...

The practical changes. so we've had, really, a couple of awful years in terms of those high—profile cases, of awful violence against women and girls, but we also had a period in which the number of rape prosecutions, for example, has plummeted, that we've gone backwards in different areas, as well. so 2022 has to be the year that that changes. it has to be the year we see much stronger leadership from government, much stronger leadership across the country, pulling together different organisations to properly tackle violence against women and girls, rather than going backwards, as too often ...

Problem and one that it would be good for him to have an agenda around and that would start with probably addressing the culture that tolerates sexual violence, addressing policing. you know, addressing the many, many problems that survivors face when they try to come forward. the numbers don't even tell the story of the many people who never come forward. but the outrageous and inhumane ban that texas has would not do anything to address sexual violence and it would put survivors, it would put rape and incest survivors in a terrible, terrible situation. one that is far worse than the one that...

The lack of rape prosecutions in texas has been of such concern that abbott's office sponsored a study at the university of texas at austin that will be published examining why the majority of sexual assault cases aren't prosecuted. quote, when we say we're going to stop all rapists, that's not even possible, said a houston police detective who works in the special victims division. former sergeant donnegan said i can't say there's anything unique to texas. and let me just introduce one more piece of reporting. this is raquel, rape survivor who now advocates for sexual assault victims speaking...

Further, we will improve the culture ofjoint working between police and prosecutors and hold each part of the system to account with performance score cards. the crown court backlog currently stands at a record high of almost 60,000 cases and figures show that for sexual offences, there's been a 67% rise in cases awaiting trial. in the secretary of state's own words, rape victims have been failed by this government. and the rape review accepted that court delays have contributed to the plummeting rape prosecutions. rape victims deserve a criminal justice system that works for them and not agai...