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<p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to modernising courts and using technology
to improve efficiency.</p><p> </p><p>The average (median) number of days taken from
charge to first listing in court for completed criminal cases (domestic violence,
sexual abuse and rape) in England and Wales, annually 2010 - 2013, can be found in
Table 1.</p><p> </p><p>The way in which offence level data is collected and reported
means that some offences are not separately identifiable from others. The information
presented in table 1 relates only to those offences which can be separately identified
from others and relates specifically to the legislation listed under a given category.
Statistics on domestic violence have not been provided due to the reason outlined
above and therefore excluded from table 1.</p>
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