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) criminal damage and arson, (ii) drug offences and (iii) possession of weapons in the last 12 months in each of the last five years.
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 |