Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases are currently awaiting trial in magistrates courts.
The volume of outstanding ‘for trial’ cases at the magistrates’ courts is published as part of the National Statistics series ‘Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly’.
The latest published data is available to March 2023 and can be found in Table M1 which is accessible at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2023.