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<p>The Home Office does not centrally hold the information requested.</p><p>From April
2017 the Home Office requested information on a voluntary basis from police forces
on the number of individuals released on pre-charge bail following arrest, broken
down by bail length.</p><p>This data collection has been published (as an Annex) within
the ‘Police powers and procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, based
on data received from 17 forces for the 2017/18 financial period. These figures give
an indicative picture only and should be treated with caution – they have been designated
as ‘Experimental Statistics’, to acknowledge further development will take place in
the future. These can be accessed here:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2018"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2018</a></p><p>Data
on the number of individuals released on pre-charge bail following arrest, broken
down by bail length, were requested on a mandatory basis from April 2018, which will
be published in the next instalment of the ‘Police powers and procedures, England
and Wales’ statistical bulletin, scheduled for release in Autumn 2019.</p><p>Information
on the number/proportion of persons released on pre-charge bail with restrictions
are not collected, nor are information on specific details of pre-charge bail restrictions,
and these will not be covered in the statistics.</p>
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