Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of Crown Prosecution Service cases in the magistrates' courts were prosecuted by (a) Crown prosecutors and (b) paralegals in each of the last five years.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number or proportion of individual prosecutions conducted by Crown Prosecutors or Associate Prosecutors (paralegals) in magistrates’ courts. To obtain these details would require a manual exercise of reviewing individual case files to be undertaken at a disproportionate cost.