Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many CPS applications to extend the custody time limit for bail have been made for (a) drug offences, (b) rape charges, (c) firearms offences, (d) other dangerous weapon offences, (e) grievous bodily harm, (f) manslaughter, (g) murder and (h) all other offences in (i) Derbyshire and (ii) each region of the UK in the last five years.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not collect data on the number of applications made by the CPS to the courts to extend custody time limits or on applications made by the CPS to the court to extend pre-charge bail periods. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur disproportionate cost.