Prosecutions: Children
(asked on 1st November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of criminal cases in which children were defendants have been summary-only offences in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 4th November 2021
The requested statistics can be found in the table below. They have been extracted from the Outcomes by offence data tool, which can be found on the Criminal justice system statistics quarterly: December 2020 web page.
Calendar Year | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
Total Summary-only offences | 17,226 | 14,947 | 12,399 | 9,877 | 6,890 |
Summary-only as %ge of all offences | 48% | 45% | 44% | 39% | 35% |