Criminal Proceedings
(asked on 11th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many criminal cases were heard in each (a) magistrates' court and (b) crown court in England and Wales in each year between 2016 and 2021.
The table below shows the latest published data on the number of disposals in the Crown Courts in England and Wales from 2016 to 2021. This data can be found on the criminal court statistics information page.
Number of disposals in the Crown Courts | ||||||
2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 (up to June) |
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123,257 | 115,726 | 105,782 | 99,654 | 78,195 | 48,018 |
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The table below shows the latest published data on the number of disposals of criminal cases in the Magistrates’ Courts from 2016 to 2021. This data can be found on the criminal court statistics information page.
Number of disposals in the Magistrates’ Courts | |||||
2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 (up to June) |
1,566,357 | 1,509,022 | 1,456,735 | 1,441,778 | 1,040,308 | 590,065 |
For further data on disposals including by each Crown Court and by region in the Magistrates’ court please see the Crown Court cases received, disposed and outstanding tool and the Magistrates' courts cases received, disposed and outstanding tool available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2021.