Plea Bargaining
(asked on 30th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many early guilty pleas were made in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 5th December 2023
Early guilty pleas are defined as guilty pleas entered prior to trial. This data is published on a quarterly basis on the Criminal Justice System Delivery Data Dashboard and can be assessed here: Charge to case completion at court - CJS Dashboard (justice.gov.uk).
See below for the annual data for early guilty pleas from the last 5 years:
- 26,611 early guilty pleas made in 2019.
- 23,179 early guilty pleas made in 2020.
- 25,505 early guilty pleas made in 2021.
- 22,601 early guilty pleas made in 2022.
- 12,639 early guilty pleas made in January – June 2023.