In the year to the end of March 2017, the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimated:

• 20% of women and 4% of men have experienced some type of sexual assault since the age of 16, equivalent to 3.4 million female and 631,000 male victims

• 3.1% of women (510,000) and 0.8% of men (138,000) aged 16 to 59 had experienced a sexual assault in the last year.

• 31% of young women aged 18-24 report having experienced sexual abuse in childhood (NSPCC, 2011) 
• Most women in the UK do not have access to a Rape Crisis Centre (Map of Gaps, 2007)
• A third of people believe women who flirt are partially responsible for being raped (Amnesty, 2005)
• Conviction rates for rape are far lower than other crimes, with only 5.7% of reported rape cases ending in a conviction for the perpetrator. (Kelly, Lovett and Regan, A gap or a chasm? Attrition in reported rape cases, 2005)