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1664470

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date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of defendants had their sentence increased after appealing the (a) sentence and (b) conviction they received from the magistrates’ court to the Crown Court in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	202323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of appeals against magistrates’ decisions dealt with in the Crown Court: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2023/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2023" target="_blank">Criminal court statistics quarterly: April to June 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>However, data linking the Crown Court appeal case to the initial magistrates’ case is not held centrally. This information may be held on court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/10/2023 10:05:34 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1664471

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people who appealed the (a) sentence and (b) conviction they received from a magistrates’ court to the Crown Court were (i) unrepresented, (ii) funded through legal aid and (iii) privately-funded in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	202324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows the proportion of people who appealed the sentence and conviction received from a magistrates’ court to the Crown Court unrepresented, funded through legal aid and privately funded in each of the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Appeals</strong><strong>¹ (against mags court decision) Received in the Crown Court</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong> REPRESENTATIVE TYPE</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong><strong>²</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Appeal Against</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Legal Aided</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Private</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No Representative</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>2018_2019</p></td><td><p>Conviction</p></td><td><p>452</p></td><td><p>709</p></td><td><p>539</p></td><td><p>1700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentence</p></td><td><p>786</p></td><td><p>1499</p></td><td><p>1259</p></td><td><p>3544</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentence and Conviction</p></td><td><p>378</p></td><td><p>786</p></td><td><p>1603</p></td><td><p>2767</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>2019_2020</p></td><td><p>Conviction</p></td><td><p>360</p></td><td><p>560</p></td><td><p>410</p></td><td><p>1330</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentence</p></td><td><p>848</p></td><td><p>1501</p></td><td><p>1292</p></td><td><p>3641</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentence and Conviction</p></td><td><p>332</p></td><td><p>664</p></td><td><p>1293</p></td><td><p>2289</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>2020_2021</p></td><td><p>Conviction</p></td><td><p>229</p></td><td><p>254</p></td><td><p>269</p></td><td><p>752</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentence</p></td><td><p>527</p></td><td><p>964</p></td><td><p>918</p></td><td><p>2409</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentence and Conviction</p></td><td><p>186</p></td><td><p>373</p></td><td><p>717</p></td><td><p>1276</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>2021_2022</p></td><td><p>Conviction</p></td><td><p>298</p></td><td><p>457</p></td><td><p>318</p></td><td><p>1073</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentence</p></td><td><p>569</p></td><td><p>1320</p></td><td><p>1126</p></td><td><p>3015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentence and Conviction</p></td><td><p>304</p></td><td><p>601</p></td><td><p>1069</p></td><td><p>1974</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>2022_2023</p></td><td><p>Conviction</p></td><td><p>286</p></td><td><p>473</p></td><td><p>302</p></td><td><p>1061</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentence</p></td><td><p>542</p></td><td><p>1289</p></td><td><p>1176</p></td><td><p>3007</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentence and Conviction</p></td><td><p>236</p></td><td><p>533</p></td><td><p>997</p></td><td><p>1766</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Data is based on a count of defendants not a count of cases and excludes appeals against non-criminal appeals such as licencing appeals.</li><li>Data is Financial Year April - March and based on the date the appeal was received in the Crown Court.</li><li>The data has been extracted from relevant Crown Court case management systems on the 16/10/2023.</li><li>These data are Management Information and although every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. It is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, the data can change over time and care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.</li></ol> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 19/10/2023 08:20:06 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1664472

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on legal aid for appeals to (a) sentences and (b) convictions from the magistrates' court to the Crown Court in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	202325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2023 answer text <p>The information can be found in the tables below. The 2020-21 and 2021-22 decrease is likely reflective of the fact that there were fewer cases throughout the magistrates’ court as a whole due to COVID-19. As such there are fewer cases capable of being appealed and therefore fewer cases eligible to receive legal aid funding. Expenditure has started to increase in the most recent full year for which we have data.</p><p> </p><p>a) Legal aid expenditure for appeals against sentence:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Expenditure</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£439,465.31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£611,222.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£361,743.23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>£352,904.74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>£403,672.22</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>b) Legal aid expenditure for appeals against conviction:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Expenditure</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£990,682.64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£935,538.69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£560,440.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>£636,593.57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>£690,009.23</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 19/10/2023 14:17:21 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby