Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of not guilty pleas entered by defendants accused of (a) violence against a person or persons, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) theft offences, (e) criminal damage and arson, (f) drug offences, (g) possession of a weapon or weapons, (h) public order offences, (i) miscellaneous crimes against society, (j) fraud offences, (k) summary offences involving motoring, (l) summary offences not involving motoring appearing at Crown Court in Wales in each year from 2013 to 2017.

Please refer to the tables provided for the number of defendants entering not guilty pleas at Crown Court in Wales broken down by offence group in each year from 2013 to 2017. The number of guilty and not guilty pleas for indictable offences can be created by summing all offence groups except summary non-motoring and summary-motoring.