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Prosecutions

Answer

The table below shows the number of completed prosecutions and convictions for all crimes prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) from the start of January 2005 to the end of September 2015. The data provided in the table is in financial quarters and has been drawn from the CPS’ Case Management System.

‘Total completed prosecutions’ refer to the conclusion of a prosecution case against a defendant such as conviction after trial, guilty plea, acquittal, or the prosecution against the defendant being dropped. ‘Convictions’ refer to convictions after trial and guilty pleas.

Quarter	04/05-Q4	05/06-Q1	05/06-Q2	05/06-Q3	05/06-Q4	06/07-Q1	06/07-Q2	06/07-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	295,088	290,259	300,855	272,200	296,790	264,447	282,732	255,895
Convictions	240,245	238,312	245,023	222,887	245,472	220,338	235,011	213,242

Quarter	06/07-Q4	07/08-Q1	07/08-Q2	07/08-Q3	07/08-Q4	08/09-Q1	08/09-Q2	08/09-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	275,227	260,614	280,807	255,669	267,104	257,252	271,022	245,976
Convictions	232,051	220,494	238,103	217,259	230,107	222,868	234,996	212,865

Quarter	08/09-Q4	09/10-Q1	09/10-Q2	09/10-Q3	09/10-Q4	10/11-Q1	10/11-Q2	10/11-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	258,348	244,268	256,691	236,971	244,802	237,855	251,790	233,047
Convictions	223,876	211,200	221,084	203,540	210,397	204,215	214,659	199,748

Quarter	10/11-Q4	11/12-Q1	11/12-Q2	11/12-Q3	11/12-Q4	12/13-Q1	12/13-Q2	12/13-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	236,142	220,036	236,042	216,311	224,116	201,542	215,469	196,592
Convictions	202,709	189,566	202,547	185,534	193,010	174,000	185,133	167,079

Quarter	12/13-Q4	13/14-Q1	13/14-Q2	13/14-Q3	13/14-Q4	14/15-Q1	14/15-Q2
Total completed prosecutions	192,855	186,541	189,668	176,437	184,050	163,574	170,234
Convictions	163,541	159,634	161,268	149,810	156,177	137,257	142,020

Quarter	14/15-Q3	14/15-Q4	15/16-Q1	15/16-Q2
Total completed prosecutions	163,142	167,540	159,605	163,656
Convictions	135,909	139,596	132,942	135,324

Secondary information

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Written question

Reference

26847

Session

2023-24

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