Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases listed in magistrates courts have had to be abandoned and for what reasons since 2010.

This information is not held centrally. The Ministry of Justice does publish annual data on trials in the magistrates’ courts for England and Wales, including numbers of effective trials and the key reasons for cracked trials and ineffective trials. This is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-annual-january-to-march-2018