Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was between (a) a crime being committed and an offender being sentenced, (b) sentencing and an appeal hearing, (c) end of trial to sentencing and (d) charge and the commencement of a trial in (i) England and Wales, (ii) London, (iii) each local justice area in London and (iv) each court in London in each year since 2010.

Information on average time between a crime being committed and an offender being sentenced, sentencing and an appeal hearing and end of trial to sentencing is not held.

Information on the average number of days taken from charge to main hearing for Crown Court criminal cases in England and Wales is published regularly as part of the Criminal Courts Statistics Quarterly, found at www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics. The requested information can be found in the main tables, in Table T4.