Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2015 to Question 11884, what estimate he has made of the total cost to the public purse of vacated trials due to the prosecution in each year since 2010-11; and how many and what proportion of trials were (a) ineffective and (b) cracked in (i) Magistrates' courts and (ii) the Crown Court for reasons related to the prosecution in each year since 2010-11.

HMCTS is unable to provide information on the cost of trials vacated for reasons related to the prosecution.

Figures on ineffective, vacated and cracked trials, including the reasons for these, are published quarterly at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics in tables M3, M4, C3 and C4.

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.