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Written question asked by Katie Lam (Conservative) on Thursday, 9 July 2026, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 13 July 2026. It was answered by Sarah Sackman (Labour) on Friday, 17 July 2026 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Crown Court: Criminal Proceedings

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, why his Department's Crown Court Information data tool, which previously published receipts, disposals, guilty plea and trial effectiveness statistics broken down by individual Crown Court centre, has not been updated since December 2023, and whether he plans to update and make these statistics publicly available.

Answer

The Ministry of Justice retired use of the Crown Court Information data tool in 2024 because we rationalised outputs to avoid duplicating published measures, and moved towards other software solutions. Much of the data previously available in the tool and some additional metrics and breakdowns are published in detailed pivot tools and dashboards as set out below.

The Ministry of Justice routinely publishes data on the Crown Court caseload, plea, and trial effectiveness as part of the Accredited Official Statistics series Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly. This includes detailed data tools which provide breakdowns by available geography: Criminal court statistics - GOV.UK

For a dashboard view of the data, the department has published the Criminal Justice System Data Delivery Dashboard. This includes a range of performance metrics, including data on trials that do not proceed in the ‘Victim engagement’ section of the dashboard: Home - CJS Dashboard.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
17591
Session
2026-27
Subjects
Criminal proceedings Crown Court Trials
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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