Prisoners on Remand

(asked on 7th July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was that remand prisoners spent on remand in each of the last 20 years.


Answered by
Nicholas Dakin Portrait
Nicholas Dakin
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
This question was answered on 15th July 2025

Information relating to the time spent on custodial remand is not centrally held by the Ministry of Justice. To obtain the data to answer this question would involve a manual interrogation of court records which would incur a disproportionate cost to the Department.

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