Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Failure to Appear warrants were issued by courts for (a) murder and (b) rape in each of the last five years up to March 2020.

Data showing the number of failure to appear warrants issued for (a) murder and (b) rape from 1^st April 2015 to 31^st March 2020 in both Crown and Magistrates’ Courts can be found in the table below:

Notes:
1. Data are taken from a live management information system and can change over time

2. The data is based on statistics from management information system extract only

3. Data are management information and may differ from previously published stats and are not subject to the same level of checks as official statistics

4. Magistrates where a defendant is charged with an indictable offence and if more than one offence and a Failure to Appear Warrant is issued each offence is counted separately

5. Crown if a defendant has had a bench warrant issued on more than one occasion, they have been counted separately

6. Offences include attempted and conspiracy sub-groups

7. Data has not been cross referenced with case files.