Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to undertake an audit of the use of parasitic assessorial liability in convictions secured before 2016 to assess the (a) scope and (b) consequences of its application during the period the Supreme Court decided the law had been misapplied.

The Government has no current plans to conduct an audit of the presence of parasitic accessory liability in joint enterprise convictions secured before 2016.

The Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings database holds information on people who have been proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for specific criminal offences in England and Wales (i.e. murder, manslaughter, etc). This centrally held information does not include information on whether a defendant proceeded against or found guilty of an offence was party to a joint enterprise that involved parasitic accessory liability.

Similarly, data on individual appeals against convictions where parasitic accessory liability may have been a factor is not held centrally.