Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people remanded in custody in each of the last 24 months were (a) found not guilty and (b) did not receive a custodial sentence on conviction.

The Ministry of Justice has published information on custodial remands and sentencing outcomes found in the ‘Remands: Magistrates’ Court’ and ‘Remands: Crown Court’ data up to December 2019. The data is in tools available at:

• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888658/remands-magistrates-court-tool-2019.xlsx

• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888657/remands-crown-court-tool-2019.xlsx

These tools identify the number of individuals remanded in custody (annually) that were found:

• not guilty (select: Convicted/Not convicted); or

• did not receive an immediate custodial sentence (Select: all options in ‘outcome’ except Immediate custodial sentence’).

*To avoid double counting individuals dealt with at Crown Court, deselect those sent for trial or sentencing in the magistrates’ court in the ‘Outcome’ drop down list.

The figures can be shown quarterly by selecting individual quarters in the pull-down menus. To provide figures for each individual month for the last 24 months that have been published (which would be January 2018 – December 2019) would require bespoke analysis which we would not be able to deliver within the allocated time. Please note that data beyond December 2019 is due for publication in the National Statistics release in May 2021.