Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many robbery cases were (a) received and (b) disposed of at each (i) magistrates court and (ii) crown court in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which data is available.

Receipts and disposals for robbery by Crown Court is already published in the ‘Crown Court cases received, disposed and outstanding tool’. The tool provides quarterly data from 2014 to 2021 by Crown Court and can be adjusted to establish annual figures.

Magistrates courts’ information relating to receipts, disposals and outstanding cases is not available by offence type. Identifying robbery offences for this PQ would therefore represent disproportionate costs.