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1472618

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Robbery: Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how may robbery cases were (a) received and (b) disposed of at every (i) magistrates court and (ii) crown court in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	23302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the impact the pandemic has had on timeliness, and the Government is committed to continuing to work to reduce waiting times for victims, witnesses and other court users.</p><p>Over the next three financial years we are investing an extra £477 million for the Criminal Justice System to help improve waiting times for victims of crime.</p><p>We have removed the limit on sitting days in the Crown Court for the second year in a row. This means that the courts will continue working at full capacity, delivering swifter justice for victims and reducing the backlog of cases. We are also expanding our plans for judicial recruitment to secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/2023 and beyond. We opened two new ‘super courtrooms’ in Manchester and Loughborough, allowing up to an extra 250 cases a year to be heard across England and Wales.</p><p>In the magistrates' court, the criminal caseload has fallen from 445,000 in July 2020 to 358,100 in April 2022. The outstanding caseload in the Crown Court has reduced from around 60,700 cases in June 2021 to around 58,300 cases at the end of April 2022.</p><p>Receipts and disposals by offence group and by Crown Court is already published in the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1064883/cc_rdos_tool.xlsx" target="_blank">Crown Court cases received, disposed and outstanding tool</a>’. The tool provides quarterly data from 2014 to 2021 by Crown Court and selected offence groups and can be adjusted to establish annual figures.</p><p>The tool doesn’t include ‘All rape’ in the list of offence groups so a table (Table 1 attached) has been provided for PQ 23305.</p><p>Magistrates courts’ information relating to receipts, disposals and outstanding cases is not available by offence type. Identifying the selected offence groups for this PQ would therefore represent disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 23303 23304 23305 23306 question first answered 27/06/2022 16:43:50 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-06-27 23305.xlsx title 23305_table
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1472619

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Theft: Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many theft cases were (a) received and (b) disposed of at every (i) magistrates court and (ii) crown court in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	23303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the impact the pandemic has had on timeliness, and the Government is committed to continuing to work to reduce waiting times for victims, witnesses and other court users.</p><p>Over the next three financial years we are investing an extra £477 million for the Criminal Justice System to help improve waiting times for victims of crime.</p><p>We have removed the limit on sitting days in the Crown Court for the second year in a row. This means that the courts will continue working at full capacity, delivering swifter justice for victims and reducing the backlog of cases. We are also expanding our plans for judicial recruitment to secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/2023 and beyond. We opened two new ‘super courtrooms’ in Manchester and Loughborough, allowing up to an extra 250 cases a year to be heard across England and Wales.</p><p>In the magistrates' court, the criminal caseload has fallen from 445,000 in July 2020 to 358,100 in April 2022. The outstanding caseload in the Crown Court has reduced from around 60,700 cases in June 2021 to around 58,300 cases at the end of April 2022.</p><p>Receipts and disposals by offence group and by Crown Court is already published in the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1064883/cc_rdos_tool.xlsx" target="_blank">Crown Court cases received, disposed and outstanding tool</a>’. The tool provides quarterly data from 2014 to 2021 by Crown Court and selected offence groups and can be adjusted to establish annual figures.</p><p>The tool doesn’t include ‘All rape’ in the list of offence groups so a table (Table 1 attached) has been provided for PQ 23305.</p><p>Magistrates courts’ information relating to receipts, disposals and outstanding cases is not available by offence type. Identifying the selected offence groups for this PQ would therefore represent disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 23302 23304 23305 23306 question first answered 27/06/2022 16:43:50 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-06-27 23305.xlsx title 23305_table
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1472620

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Fraud: Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fraud cases were (a) received and (b) disposed of at every (i) magistrates court and (ii) crown court in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	23304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the impact the pandemic has had on timeliness, and the Government is committed to continuing to work to reduce waiting times for victims, witnesses and other court users.</p><p>Over the next three financial years we are investing an extra £477 million for the Criminal Justice System to help improve waiting times for victims of crime.</p><p>We have removed the limit on sitting days in the Crown Court for the second year in a row. This means that the courts will continue working at full capacity, delivering swifter justice for victims and reducing the backlog of cases. We are also expanding our plans for judicial recruitment to secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/2023 and beyond. We opened two new ‘super courtrooms’ in Manchester and Loughborough, allowing up to an extra 250 cases a year to be heard across England and Wales.</p><p>In the magistrates' court, the criminal caseload has fallen from 445,000 in July 2020 to 358,100 in April 2022. The outstanding caseload in the Crown Court has reduced from around 60,700 cases in June 2021 to around 58,300 cases at the end of April 2022.</p><p>Receipts and disposals by offence group and by Crown Court is already published in the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1064883/cc_rdos_tool.xlsx" target="_blank">Crown Court cases received, disposed and outstanding tool</a>’. The tool provides quarterly data from 2014 to 2021 by Crown Court and selected offence groups and can be adjusted to establish annual figures.</p><p>The tool doesn’t include ‘All rape’ in the list of offence groups so a table (Table 1 attached) has been provided for PQ 23305.</p><p>Magistrates courts’ information relating to receipts, disposals and outstanding cases is not available by offence type. Identifying the selected offence groups for this PQ would therefore represent disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 23302 23303 23305 23306 question first answered 27/06/2022 16:43:50 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-06-27 23305.xlsx title 23305_table
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1472621

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many rape cases were (a) received and (b) disposed of at every (i) magistrates court and (ii) crown court in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	23305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the impact the pandemic has had on timeliness, and the Government is committed to continuing to work to reduce waiting times for victims, witnesses and other court users.</p><p>Over the next three financial years we are investing an extra £477 million for the Criminal Justice System to help improve waiting times for victims of crime.</p><p>We have removed the limit on sitting days in the Crown Court for the second year in a row. This means that the courts will continue working at full capacity, delivering swifter justice for victims and reducing the backlog of cases. We are also expanding our plans for judicial recruitment to secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/2023 and beyond. We opened two new ‘super courtrooms’ in Manchester and Loughborough, allowing up to an extra 250 cases a year to be heard across England and Wales.</p><p>In the magistrates' court, the criminal caseload has fallen from 445,000 in July 2020 to 358,100 in April 2022. The outstanding caseload in the Crown Court has reduced from around 60,700 cases in June 2021 to around 58,300 cases at the end of April 2022.</p><p>Receipts and disposals by offence group and by Crown Court is already published in the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1064883/cc_rdos_tool.xlsx" target="_blank">Crown Court cases received, disposed and outstanding tool</a>’. The tool provides quarterly data from 2014 to 2021 by Crown Court and selected offence groups and can be adjusted to establish annual figures.</p><p>The tool doesn’t include ‘All rape’ in the list of offence groups so a table (Table 1 attached) has been provided for PQ 23305.</p><p>Magistrates courts’ information relating to receipts, disposals and outstanding cases is not available by offence type. Identifying the selected offence groups for this PQ would therefore represent disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 23302 23303 23304 23306 question first answered 27/06/2022 16:43:50 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-06-27 23305.xlsx title 23305_table
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1472622

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sexual offence cases were (a) received and (b) disposed of at every (i) magistrates court and (ii) crown court in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	23306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the impact the pandemic has had on timeliness, and the Government is committed to continuing to work to reduce waiting times for victims, witnesses and other court users.</p><p>Over the next three financial years we are investing an extra £477 million for the Criminal Justice System to help improve waiting times for victims of crime.</p><p>We have removed the limit on sitting days in the Crown Court for the second year in a row. This means that the courts will continue working at full capacity, delivering swifter justice for victims and reducing the backlog of cases. We are also expanding our plans for judicial recruitment to secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/2023 and beyond. We opened two new ‘super courtrooms’ in Manchester and Loughborough, allowing up to an extra 250 cases a year to be heard across England and Wales.</p><p>In the magistrates' court, the criminal caseload has fallen from 445,000 in July 2020 to 358,100 in April 2022. The outstanding caseload in the Crown Court has reduced from around 60,700 cases in June 2021 to around 58,300 cases at the end of April 2022.</p><p>Receipts and disposals by offence group and by Crown Court is already published in the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1064883/cc_rdos_tool.xlsx" target="_blank">Crown Court cases received, disposed and outstanding tool</a>’. The tool provides quarterly data from 2014 to 2021 by Crown Court and selected offence groups and can be adjusted to establish annual figures.</p><p>The tool doesn’t include ‘All rape’ in the list of offence groups so a table (Table 1 attached) has been provided for PQ 23305.</p><p>Magistrates courts’ information relating to receipts, disposals and outstanding cases is not available by offence type. Identifying the selected offence groups for this PQ would therefore represent disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 23302 23303 23304 23305 question first answered 27/06/2022 16:43:50 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-06-27 23305.xlsx title 23305_table
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1471826

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Burglary: Remand in Custody
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish figures on the (a) number of offenders who were held on remand awaiting trial for burglary and (b) length of time those offenders were held on remand for, in each prison in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	21202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>The number of prisoners who were held on untried remand for alleged burglary and the length of time those prisoners were held on remand, in each prison in England and Wales, as at 30 June in each of the last five years, is shown in the attached tables.</p><p>When the court is making a remand decision, the Bail Act 1976 provides a presumption in favour of bail, recognising that a person should not be deprived of their liberty unless necessary for the protection of the public or the delivery of justice.</p><p>The courts decide on a case-by-case basis whether a defendant presents such a bail risk as to warrant custody. Bail can only be refused where there is justification, as prescribed in Schedule 1 to the Bail Act, such as substantial grounds for believing that the defendant, would abscond, commit further offences, interfere with witnesses or otherwise obstruct the course of justice.</p><p>The overall remand population has increased in recent years as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Government is committed to supporting the recovery of the courts and we continue to take action to tackle the impact the pandemic has had on the system. We have extended 30 Nightingale courtrooms beyond the end of March 2022 and have again removed the limit on the number of days the Crown Court can sit this financial year. To secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/23 and beyond, we are also expanding our plans for judicial recruitment.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 23/06/2022 14:03:02 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-06-23 21202.xlsx title PQ21202
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1471827

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Burglary: Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many burglary cases were (a) received and (b) disposed of at every (i) magistrates' court and (ii) Crown court in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	21203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>Receipts and disposals for burglary offences by Crown Court has been provided (Table 1) along with this PQ response.</p><p>Magistrates courts’ information relating to receipts, disposals and outstanding cases is not available by offence type. Identifying burglary offences for this PQ would therefore represent disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 23/06/2022 16:21:44 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-06-23 21203 table.xlsx title for Publication
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1471828

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Robbery: Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many robbery cases were (a) received and (b) disposed of at each (i) magistrates court and (ii) crown court in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	21204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>Receipts and disposals for robbery by Crown Court is already published in the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1064883/cc_rdos_tool.xlsx" target="_blank">Crown Court cases received, disposed and outstanding tool</a>’. The tool provides quarterly data from 2014 to 2021 by Crown Court and can be adjusted to establish annual figures.</p><p>Magistrates courts’ information relating to receipts, disposals and outstanding cases is not available by offence type. Identifying robbery offences for this PQ would therefore represent disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 23/06/2022 14:04:41 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1471167

registered interest
date	16/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Arson: Remand in Custody
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders were held on remand awaiting trial for arson; and for how long those offenders were held on remand in each prison in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	19619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The number of prisoners who were held on untried remand for alleged arson and the length of time those prisoners were held on remand, in each prison in England and Wales, as at 30 June in each of the last five years, is shown in the attached tables.</p><p>When the court is making a remand decision, the Bail Act 1976 provides a presumption in favour of bail, recognising that a person should not be deprived of their liberty unless necessary for the protection of the public or the delivery of justice.</p><p>The courts decide on a case-by-case basis whether a defendant presents such a bail risk as to warrant custody. Bail can only be refused where there is justification, as prescribed in Schedule 1 to the Bail Act, such as substantial grounds for believing that the defendant, would abscond, commit further offences, interfere with witnesses or otherwise obstruct the course of justice.</p><p>The overall remand population has increased in recent years as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Government is committed to supporting the recovery of the courts and we continue to take action to tackle the impact the pandemic has had on the system. We have extended 30 Nightingale courtrooms beyond the end of March 2022 and have again removed the limit on the number of days the Crown Court can sit this financial year. To secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/23 and beyond, we are also expanding our plans for judicial recruitment.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 21/06/2022 15:34:15 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-06-21 PQ 19619.xlsx title 19619_table
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1471168

registered interest
date	16/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Remand in Custody
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish figures on the (a) number of offenders who were held on remand awaiting trial for rape and (b) length of time those offenders were held on remand for, in each prison in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	19620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The number of prisoners who were held on untried remand for alleged rape and the length of time those prisoners were held on remand, in each prison in England and Wales, as at 30 June in each of the last five years, is shown in the attached tables.</p><p>When the court is making a remand decision, the Bail Act 1976 provides a presumption in favour of bail, recognising that a person should not be deprived of their liberty unless necessary for the protection of the public or the delivery of justice.</p><p>The courts decide on a case-by-case basis whether a defendant presents such a bail risk as to warrant custody. Bail can only be refused where there is justification, as prescribed in Schedule 1 to the Bail Act, such as substantial grounds for believing that the defendant, would abscond, commit further offences, interfere with witnesses or otherwise obstruct the course of justice.</p><p>The overall remand population has increased in recent years as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Government is committed to supporting the recovery of the courts and we continue to take action to tackle the impact the pandemic has had on the system. We have extended 30 Nightingale courtrooms beyond the end of March 2022 and have again removed the limit on the number of days the Crown Court can sit this financial year. To secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/23 and beyond, we are also expanding our plans for judicial recruitment.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 21/06/2022 15:35:23 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-06-21 PQ 19620.xlsx title 19620_table
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed