Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of number of defendants accused of (a) rape and (b) sexual assault who have been given conditional release on bail in each year since 2010.

Information on the number of defendants given conditional bail by the courts is not centrally recorded in the Court Proceeding Database held by the Ministry of Justice and to obtain it would involve a manual interrogation of court records which would result in a disproportionate cost to the department.