Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the backlog of cases relating to the possession and supply of drugs was in the (a) Crown Courts and (b) Magistrates' Courts in (i) Wales (ii) Gwent for each month from June 2019 to June 2020.
This information for the Crown Court is not held separately for Gwent as the Crown Court in Newport is administered from Cardiff.
Month | Wales outstanding drug offences in Crown Court | Wales outstanding drug offences in the Magistrates’ court | Gwent outstanding drug offences in the magistrates’ court |
June | 198 | 342 | 41 |
July | 186 | 325 | 30 |
August | 173 | 309 | 30 |
September | 159 | 316 | 34 |
October | 182 | 328 | 56 |
November | 183 | 298 | 25 |
December | 171 | 313 | 27 |