In 2006/7, there were more than 13,000 rapes reported to police in England and Wales.
The number of rape convictions was 50 per cent higher in 2007 than in 1997, but still only 6.5 per cent of reported rapes lead to a successful prosecution

Statistics form the Government Equalities Office

The only European country with a lower conviction rate than the UK was Ireland this is despite that, in 2003, the law was changed so that it is no longer a defence for a defendant to show he believed a woman consented to sex.
He must now prove that such a belief was reasonable.