Criminal Proceedings
(asked on 10th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of police-charged cases in each of the last three financial years were subsequently subject to a (a) decision by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to vary the charge, (b) decision by the CPS to drop the charge, (c) decision by the CPS to offer no evidence, (d) dismissal by the court on grounds of no-case to answer and (e) dismissal by the court after trial.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold data that would allow the identification of individual charges that had been varied at any point from the original charge.
The proportion of Police charged cases that resulted in the other requested outcomes are as follows:
| 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 |
Dropped (includes offered no evidence) | 7.7% | 8.1% | 8.3% |
Offered no evidence | 2.1% | 2.5% | 2.6% |
No case to answer (incl. mixed pleas) | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% |
Dismissed after summary trial (incl. mixed pleas) | 1.8% | 2.1% | 2.4% |