Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of defendants who represented themselves in court in each year since May 2010.

I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer provided to the right honourable member for Tooting, which can be found at:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2014-10-21/211297/.

I will write to the Honourable Member with the information requested, which is being assembled to answer to this earlier question.