Crown Prosecution Service: Standards

(asked on 2nd September 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Ruth Jones Portrait
Ruth Jones
(Labour - Newport West)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many of the cases referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for a charging decision in each of the past five years were still awaiting a charging decision after six months.

Answered by
Michael Ellis Portrait
Michael Ellis
This question was answered on 8th September 2022

Data is collated by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) showing the number of individual pre-charge consultations that are recorded as taking longer than 180 days (six months). The table below shows the number and proportion of these in each of the last four years – this data was introduced from April 2018.

2018-2019

2019-2020

2020-2021

2021-2022

Total Consultations

288,319

289,529

299,587

253,836

Consultations over 180 days (6 months)

1,336

507

461

491

% over 180 days (6 months)

0.5%

0.2%

0.2%

0.3%

CPS consultation data counts the number of consultations submitted for a full code or threshold test, also known as pre-charge reviews, recorded on the Case Management System.

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