Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) women, (b) men and (c) people of BAME background represented themselves in court in each (i) year and (ii) quarter since 2012.

The information requested would only be available at disproportionate cost.

HMCTS holds some information for individuals who come before the courts with no (or unknown) representation but it is not possible to determine self-representation from the administrative data available. Recording of sex and BAME characteristics for the purposes of administering activity in the courts differs across jurisdictions. A full response would only be available through local court records at disproportionate cost.

Where available, data on the number of cases with and without representation is published in the department’s quarterly court statistics.

Links to the latest statistics are included in the answer to PQ197612.