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<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the volumes of
completed prosecutions, or caseload, as a count of the number of defendants and collates
the data collected in financial years. At the conclusion of each prosecution case
the defendant is allocated one of 12 Principal Offence Categories that indicates the
most serious offence with which the defendant is charged at the time of finalisation.</p><p>
</p><p>The tables in Annex 1 show the number of finalised prosecution outcomes in
the CPS nationally for each Principal Offence Category, during each year from 2010-11
to 2017-18, and the year on year change in both volume and percent.</p>
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