Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2018 to Question 127570, on Courts: Video Conferencing, what proportion of witnesses have appeared in court proceedings via video link in each year since 2000.
The table below shows the proportion of defendants that appeared in court proceedings via video link from (a) police station and (b) prisons between 2013-2017.
Data is not available for periods before June 2012, as data collections were not undertaken during that time.
HMCTS do not hold the proportion of witnesses that have appeared in Magistrates or Crown court proceedings via video link.
| 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 |
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