Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of defendants in fraud cases held on remand in each year since 2017.

The Ministry of Justice has published information on defendants’ remand status in the ‘Remands: Magistrates’ Court’ and ‘Remands: Crown Court’ data tools, up to December 2020. Available at:

• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1063882/remands-magistrates-court-tool-2020-revised.xlsx
• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1063884/remands-crown-court-tool-2020-revised.xlsx

*To avoid double counting defendants dealt with at Crown Court, in the remands magistrates court tool, deselect outcomes ’06: Sent to Crown Court for trial’ and ’07: Committed to Crown Court for sentencing’ in the ‘Outcome’ filter.