Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many instances of (a) trespass on land under section 61 and (b) aggravated trespass on land under section 68 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 have taken place in each of the last five years.

Prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes up to the year ending December 2018 are available in the ‘Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool’, available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/804510/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2018.xlsx

To identify prosecutions, convictions and sentences for the above offences, filter ‘Offence code’ by

(a) ‘12522’ for trespass on land under section 61.

(b) ‘12533’ for aggravated trespass on land under section 68 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

In each case, the number of individuals prosecuted, convicted and sentenced can be found in rows 31, 32, and 33, respectively.