Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people absconded while on bail awaiting trial in each of the last five years.

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of people sentenced for failing to surrender to bail under section 6 of the Bail Act 1976 at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.