Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2023 to Question 193166 on Magistrates' Courts: ICT, how many and what proportion of the defendants in that data set entered a guilty plea; how many and what proportion of those who entered a plea of not guilty were (a) granted bail or (b) remanded into custody; and what the outcomes were for each of those groups.

This information may be held on court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs. It is not possible to interrogate the original data set provided under the previous answer so as to provide the specific answers requested.

Defendants may be tried for multiple offences, with different pleas entered for different offences, and those pleas and the defendant’s remand status can change over time. This information may be held on court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.