Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people who appealed the (a) sentence and (b) conviction they received from a magistrates’ court to the Crown Court were (i) unrepresented, (ii) funded through legal aid and (iii) privately-funded in each of the last five years.

The table below shows the proportion of people who appealed the sentence and conviction received from a magistrates’ court to the Crown Court unrepresented, funded through legal aid and privately funded in each of the last five years.

Notes:

1. Data is based on a count of defendants not a count of cases and excludes appeals against non-criminal appeals such as licencing appeals.
2. Data is Financial Year April - March and based on the date the appeal was received in the Crown Court.
3. The data has been extracted from relevant Crown Court case management systems on the 16/10/2023.
4. These data are Management Information and although every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. It is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, the data can change over time and care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.