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<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central electronic record of the
numbers of defendants and the outcome of prosecution proceedings at the Crown Court
on its Case Management System. An automated facility to collate data showing the number
of early guilty pleas was developed and implemented across the Service during 2013.
Complete records are therefore only available from April 2014.</p><br /><p>The table
below represents the number of finalised defendants entering early guilty pleas and
shows these as a proportion of all guilty pleas at the Crown Court during 2014-15.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Early
Guilty Plea</p></td><td><p>23,589</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% EGP
of all Guilty Pleas</p></td><td><p>32.5%</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total
Guilty Pleas</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>72,527</strong></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="2"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><br /><p>The total guilty plea volumes in the table above are inclusive of cases
where a defendant has entered mixed guilty and not guilty pleas.</p><br /><p>The second
table shows the number of early guilty pleas as a proportion of all finalised prosecution
outcomes at the Crown Court during the same period.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Early
Guilty Plea</p></td><td><p>23,589</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% EGP
of all Prosecutions</p></td><td><p>23.4%</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total
Prosecutions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>100,865</strong></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="2"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br
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