Bail: Offenders

(asked on 14th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of offences committed by defendants on bail while awaiting trial in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
This question was answered on 19th December 2022

The number of offences committed by individuals on bail in each of the last three years, for which data is available, is as follows:

2019 – 34,599

2020 – 30,686

2021 – 21,354

Source: MoJ extract of the Police National Computer

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