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<p>Detailed information on the reasons for prosecution witnesses being unable to attend
court is not held centrally by the Ministry of Justice. This information may be held
on court record but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access individual
court records which would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>However, it
is possible to identify the number trial cases which were recorded as cracked or ineffective
in the criminal courts where a witness was not able to attend/withdrawn. These figures
are available from the ‘Criminal Courts Listing transparency’ file, at the following
link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018</a></p>
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