Stella Creasy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stella Creasy on 2016-02-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK citizens reported themselves to the British Consulate in Ibiza as victims of crime in each of the last five years; what the nature of those crimes was; whether those crimes involved sexual violence or harassment; and what prosecutions resulted from those reports.

Mr David Lidington

Consular staff routinely record all those cases in which we have provided assistance to British nationals oversees. However, our records do not specifically identify whether those requesting assistance were victims of crime.

Since 2012, the British Consulate in Ibiza recorded the following cases which are those most likely to have involved victims of crime. Where the number of reported cases is less or equal to five, these are annotated as ‘Less than 5’ to avoid the risk of identifying the individuals concerned.

It is not mandatory for victims to provide information about any potential prosecutions, so we do not hold information on the number of prosecutions that arose from these cases

Rape & sexual assault
2011 8
2012 8
2013 7
2014 7
2015 Less than 5

Assault – General
2011 16
2012 36
2013 14
2014 Less than 5
2015 0

Domestic Violence
2011 0
2012 0
2013 0
2014 Less than 5
2015 5