Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many children with mental health difficulties have been prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales in each year since 2010.

The Crown Prosecution Service does not maintain a central record of the number of defendants, including those identified as children, with mental health difficulties who have been prosecuted. To obtain details of the number of cases where such circumstances apply would require a manual exercise of reviewing individual case files to be undertaken at a disproportionate cost.