Criminal Proceedings

(asked on 7th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) mean and (b) median time was from offence to completion for cases of (i) violence against the person, (ii) robbery and (iii) theft offences in each of the last five years.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 10th February 2022

Below we have provided data on timeliness for the offence types requested. The data shows the median and mean duration (in days) of those cases from receipt at Crown Court to completion. The Ministry of Justice does not have data on end-to-end timeliness from offence to completion broken down by offence type.

The data for each calendar year includes the figures up to 31st December of that year. For 2021, we can only provide that data up to the end of Q3 (September) which is the latest published data available.

This data is published as experimental statistics as part of the Criminal Court Statistics publication: Pivot table for average timeliness (days) from receipt to completion of defendants dealt with in cases disposed of in the Crown Court by case type, offence, plea and region. The data is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2021.

Receipt to completion in days

Violence against the person

Robbery

Mean

Median

Mean

Median

2016

188

157

173

151

2017

178

152

156

139

2018

173

154

156

143

2019

163

145

158

141

2020

168

136

170

148

2021 (to September)

229

178

251

207

Receipt to completion in days

Theft

Criminal damage and arson

Mean

Median

Mean

Median

2016

129

82

165

136

2017

116

68

169

137

2018

113

69

159

128

2019

110

65

151

126

2020

124

79

164

127

2021 (to September)

164

107

216

166

Receipt to completion in days

Drug Offences

Possession of weapons

Mean

Median

Mean

Median

2016

155

99

149

108

2017

144

88

137

100

2018

147

97

131

90

2019

133

80

120

79

2020

145

93

140

92

2021 (to September)

186

120

189

122

Receipt to completion in days

Public Order offences

Fraud

Mean

Median

Mean

Median

2016

181

134

233

153

2017

156

113

218

133

2018

156

106

217

145

2019

133

84

209

116

2020

136

82

201

116

2021 (to September)

176

106

253

141

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