Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the vacated trial rate in (a) magistrates' courts and (b) the Crown Court was in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion of those vacated trials were for reasons related to the prosecution.

Figures on ineffective and cracked trials are published quarterly at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics.

Figures on the number and proportion of vacated trials in magistrates courts for reasons related to the prosecution since 2010/11 are in Table 1, and those for Crown Courts are in Table 2.