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<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of prosecution outcomes
with reference to 12 Principal Offence Categories which indicate the most serious
offence a defendant is charged with at finalisation, in the CPS Case Management Information
System.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Principal Offence Category comprises a range
of individual offences. These cannot be disaggregated to report prosecution outcomes
by a specific offence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Further to the Answer provided
on 16 July 2014, published in Hansard, Official Report, column 678W, on Crown Courts,
the number of defendants allocated a Principal Offence Category of ‘Homicide’ in each
of the last six years, is shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p>
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