Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) total and (b) effective trials for fraud offences there were in each year since 2017.

The Ministry of Justice has published quarterly trial volumes in England & Wales up to Q3 2021 in the ‘Trial effectiveness at the criminal courts tool’, available at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1047818/trials_tool.xlsx.

The pivot table linked above provides quarterly figures for number of trials by court type, whether a trial was effective, cracked or ineffective, the reason for the outcome, and vacated trials, offence group, region, LCJB area, crown court/LJA, year and quarter. The data requested is available through this table.