Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders from each ethnic group pleaded guilty for each category of offence in the last year for which information is available.

The number and percentage of offenders found guilty at the Crown Court, by offence group and ethnicity, in England and Wales, in 2014 (the latest available), can be viewed in table 1.

The number and percentage of offenders who pleaded guilty at the Crown Court, by offence group and ethnicity, in England and Wales, in 2014 (the latest available), can be viewed in table 2.

Plea data at magistrates’ courts are not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. It is not possible to present a representative picture of ethnicity at the magistrates’ courts as data on ethnicity is not collected at the magistrates’ courts for all offences.