Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trials in each of the last three years have been ineffective due to (a) defence not ready, (b) defendant not produced by Prison Escort Custody Service, (c) defence increase time estimate, (d) defence advocate engaged in another trial, (e) defence advocate failed to attend, (f) another case over-ran and (g) equipment /accommodation failure.

The Ministry of Justice has published information on trial effectiveness at the criminal courts (including ineffective trials by reason and court type), up to December 2021, in the ‘Trial effectiveness at the criminal courts tool’ available at the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2021.