2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

Overall (2013-17)

Prison (number of defendants that appeared in court by video by prison video link)

53,487

72,201

81,219

74,429

77,722

359,058

Prison (proportion of defendants that appeared in court by video by prison video link)

90.1%

89.9%

88.8%

86.0%

88.5%

88.7%

Police station (number of defendants that appeared in court by video by police station video link)

5,884

8,083

10,270

12,089

10,067

46,393

Police station (proportion of defendants that appeared in court by video by police station video link)

9.9%

10.1%

11.2%

14.0%

11.5%

11.3%

Total number of defendants that appeared in court by video by police station or prison video link

59,371

80,284

91,489

86,518

87,789

405,451

Source: HMCTS management information

Notes:

• Data is not available for periods before June 2012 as data collections were not undertaken. Data has been supplied for the complete years 2013 to 2017.

• Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data has been recorded manually by the local courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.

• The data provided is the most recent available and for that reason might differ slightly from any previously published information.

• The data supplied is based on a count of defendants appearing in the Magistrates' Courts and Crown Court via Police Station (Mags only) and Prison video link. Therefore, the same defendant will appear in the tables more than once where they initially appeared via Police Station video link, and then subsequently appeared via Prison video link on one or more occasions.

• Data are management information and are not subject to the same level of checks as official statistics.

• Data has not been cross referenced with case files.