Crown Prosecution Service: Staff
(asked on 21st November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 175908, during the same period what the change has been in the overall case load for the Crown Prosecution Service.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the volumes of completed prosecutions, or caseload, as a count of the number of defendants. The table below shows the number of prosecutions for both the 12 months ending September 2008 and September 2018 and the change in both volume and percent.
| Year Ending September 2008 | Year Ending September 2018 | Volume Change | Change % |
CPS Prosecution Caseload | 1,051,047 | 511,090 | -539,957 | -51.4% |
(Data Source: Case Management Information System)
The types of cases prosecuted by the CPS have changed significantly in the period between 2008 and 2018. Prosecutions for more serious and complex cases have risen, including a 5% increase in homicide, a 17% increase in fraud and forgery and a 28% increase in sexual offences cases. During the same period, minor motoring cases have fallen by 74% as responsibility for prosecuting some of these cases has transferred to the police.