Widening the scope of the current victim statement scheme: consultation analysis

Analysis

There were eight questions in the consultation document, which related to proposals for the eligibility, delivery, and impact of expanding the victim statement scheme.

All questions which asked for a “yes” or “no” answer have been broken down into the following categories for responses:

• Yes – the respondent selected “yes” when answering the question
• No – the respondent selected “no” when answering the question
• Not answered (NA) – the respondent did not answer the question and made no comments about the proposal
• Where a respondent did not answer the yes/no question but made comments about the proposal that clearly indicated a view in a particular direction, the answer was coded as appropriate and added to the yes/no responses.

The following analysis follows the structure of the consultation document. For each question it gives the breakdown of multiple-choice answers selected, a summary of the themes from comments given, and an example quotation from the responses.