Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) Magistrates' Court and (b) Crown Court case are outstanding.
The estimated volume of outstanding cases at the criminal courts is published routinely.
The latest national estimates are available as part of Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) management information at the link below:
Further breakdowns of the outstanding caseload at the criminal courts is available as part of the National Statistics series ‘Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly’ (latest to June 2020):
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics