Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions for arson there have been in each police force area in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Court outcomes data is not held at individual magistrates’ court level. Identifying individual courts separately would require a manual search of court records, which would be at disproportionate costs.

The Ministry of Justice has published information on prosecutions and convictions for arson and drug offences by police force area, in England and Wales, up to December 2021, available in the ‘Outcomes by Offence’ data tool, which can be found here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076459/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2021-v2.xlsx.

The Ministry of Justice has published information on prosecutions and convictions for drug and arson offences by police force area, at magistrates’ courts and Crown Court in England and Wales, up to December 2021 available in the ‘Magistrates’ Court’ and ‘Crown Court’ data tools, which can be found here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076465/magistrates-court-tool-2021.xlsx.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076467/crown-court-tool-2021.xlsx.