The number of arrest warrants issued for defendants who failed to attend court in England and Wales, by region, for the period 2010 to 2014 (the latest data available) can be viewed in the table below: Number of Failure to Appear (FTA) Warrants received ⁽¹⁾ by region in England and Wales, 2010- 2014.

Region ⁽²⁾

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

North West

16,061

15,440

12,448

11,817

11,779

North East

6,098

5,765

4,878

5,106

5,056

Yorkshire and Humberside

11,973

10,480

9,420

8,271

7,851

West Midlands ⁽³⁾

6,963

6,580

3,205

2,812

2,914

East Midlands ⁽⁴⁾

6,213

5,930

5,518

5,457

5,858

East of England

8,999

8,267

6,876

5,638

5,284

South East

10,825

10,674

9,257

9,304

9,716

London

13,146

12,407

9,942

10,752

11,107

South West

7,732

7,617

5,874

5,851

6,010

Wales

5,463

5,628

5,401

5,217

4,441

England & Wales

93,473

88,788

72,819

70,225

70,016

(1) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from live systems used by police forces principally for operational reasons. As such, they are subject to change over time. For these reasons, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

(2) Defined as comprising the following police force areas: East of England - Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Essex. East Midlands - Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire. London - City of London, Metropolitan police. North East - Cleveland, Durham, Northumbria. North West - Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire, Greater Manchester. South East - Sussex, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Surrey, Kent. South West - Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Avon and Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. Wales - Gwent, South Wales, Dyfed-Powys, North Wales. West Midlands - West Midlands, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Mercia. Yorkshire and Humberside - North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Humberside. (3) West Midlands constabulary are unable to supply any FTA warrant data from 1 April 2012. (4) Lincolnshire Police were unable to supply any data for Q4 of 2014 because of technical issues related to the introduction of a new warrant management system. Procedures for supplying the Ministry of Justice with data relating to FTA warrants have been revised to ensure that in future these data are captured. Data presented are for the first three quarters of 2014 only. Note: These data are reported to the Ministry of Justice by police forces. As such, they are not directly comparable with other data presented in the Criminal Statistics bulletin, which are returned directly from administrative data systems used by magistrates' courts and the Crown Court.