Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cracked trials there were in each of the last six months.

We have different data sources for the number of cracked trials in the Crown Courts and magistrates’ courts.

The table below shows the latest published data on the number of cracked trials in the Crown Courts. This data can be found on the HMCTS management information page.

The latest published data we have on the number of cracked trials in the magistrates’ courts is set out in the table below. This data can be found on our quarterly national statistics page.