Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average, (b) shortest and (c) longest length of time was between a defendant being remanded in custody and the court deciding whether to convict in cases of alleged rape under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 where the defendant was remanded in custody in each year since 2009-10; and on how many occasions the defendant was remanded in custody for longer than 182 days.

This PQ cannot be answered due to disproportionate costs as the dates of when defendants are in remand or on bail after the case has reached the Crown Court are not available within the timeliness dataset.