Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women were remanded in custody whilst a psychiatric report was prepared for the court in each of the last five years.

This information is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Significant information is held on individual court files but is not reported to the MoJ due to its size and complexity. This information would need to be individually inspected to see whether or not remand pending a psychiatric report had taken place in each case.