Hansard - United Kingdom Parliament

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Written Answers
20 JUNE 2011
Written Answers
92W
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Theft and handling stolen goods 54,466 61,944 67,619 72,369 72,790 64,047 60,730 47,538
Fraud and forgery 5,484 6,036 6,936 8,024 8,587 8,263 7,210 6,126
Criminal damage 3,726 5,495 7,246 9,018 8,813 7,873 6,419 5,075
Drug offences 45,707 32,621 34,390 37,426 43,050 47,038 43,808 40,721
Other indictable offences 4,5 5,270 5,970 6,912 9,388 9,996 8,609 7,982 7,155
Summary offences (excluding motoring) 91,057 99,497 116,011 146,168 157,797 146,712 131,110 109,290
Aged 10 to 17 241,806 255,768 298,945 349,977 362,895 327,892 290,645 242,831
1
From 1 June 2000 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with
reprimands and warnings.
2
The cautions statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When an offender has been cautioned for
two or more offences at the same time the principal offence is the more serious offence.
3
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large
administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are
taken into account when those data are used.
4
Standardisation of offence groups—‘concealment of birth’, will be included in the offence group ‘other indictable offences’, moving from ‘violence against the
person’; changing the classification of an offence committed by approximately five defendants each year.
5
Standardisation of offence groups—‘bigamy’, will be included in the offence group ‘other indictable offences’, moving from ‘sexual offences’, changing the
classification of an offence committed by approximately 20 defendants each year.
Source:
Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice
Courts
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice
(1) how many cases in (a) magistrates courts and (b)
the Crown court were awaiting trial on 1 January of
each year since 1995; [59907]
(2) how many cases (a) magistrates courts and
(b) the Crown court received in each year since 1995.
[60005]
Mr Djanogly: The total number of cases received by
the Crown court and the number of trial cases outstanding
at the end of year, in England and Wales, from 1995 to
2010 are provided in the following table.
Information on cases received and cases awaiting
trial in the magistrates courts can be provided only at
disproportionate cost. Since 2009 information on cases
received is collected on central systems, but cannot be
readily extracted and collated at the present time due to
the way the data are held. The available statistics on
magistrates court workloads relates to the number of
criminal proceedings completed. Figures for all magistrates
courts in England and Wales from 2008 to 2010 are also
presented in the table. Statistics are not available prior
to April 2007 on a comparable basis due to changes in
the data collection method. Information regarding the
number of cases awaiting trial is also not available since
it is not collected centrally and could be obtained from
court files only at disproportionate cost.
Table 1. Number of cases received and trials outstanding in the Crown court, and completed criminal proceedings in the magistrates courts, England and Wales, 1995 to
2010 6
Total number of cases
received in the Crown court 1
Total number of trial cases
received in the Crown court 2
Total number of trial cases
outstanding at the end of each year
Total number of criminal proceedings
completed in the magistrates courts 4,5
1995 118,144 81,186 24,993 —
1996 114,311 83,328 25,048 —
1997 122,250 91,110 25,916 —
1998 121,867 75,815 23,853 —
1999 121,573 74,232 24,624 -
2000 3 112,504 72,420 25,098 —
2001 120,023 81,968 29,686 —
2002 125,074 85,052 31,495 —
2003 126,390 84,944 32,279 —
2004 122,062 79,476 29,812 —
2005 124,313 79,214 33,246 —
2006 126,991 77,557 33,853 —
2007 136,434 82,881 33,987 —
2008 145,715 90,040 36,312 2,031,140
2009 150,711 97,707 39,898 1,912,632
2010 6 150,666 96,927 36,363 1,797,348
1
Receipts in the Crown court include committals direct from the magistrates court, bench warrants executed (trial and sentence only) and cases transferred in, less
cases transferred out.
2
Sent for trial cases under s51 CDA 1998 were introduced nationally on 15 January 2001 before this figures are from the pilot programme, resulting in an increase in
the number of trials received in the Crown court in 2001.
3
Crown court statistics before 2000 were obtained from CREST via our historical database.
4
Criminal proceedings completed in the magistrates courts includes indictable only cases, triable either-way cases, summary motoring, summary non-motoring,
youth proceeding and breaches. These figures are based on the number of completed proceedings.
5
Magistrates courts changed their data collection systems from legacy systems to Libra during this time. Statistics are not available prior to April 2007 on a
comparable basis due to changes in the data collection method, so figures for 2007 are not provided.
6
The figures for 2010 are provisional; revised statistics will be published in ‘Judicial and Court Statistics’ on 30 June 2011.
Source:
HMCTS CREST system and Completed Proceedings, HMCTS Performance Database (‘OPT’)