Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) failure to appear warrants have been issued and (b) times the police have had to collect defendants to ensure that they attended trial in each of the last 24 months.

Data on the number of warrants for the arrest of defendants who have failed to attend in criminal proceedings is not currently available in published statistics. The Ministry of Justice and HMCTS has developed a consistent statistical measure for warrants for arrest for failing to attend court, and will publish a quarterly time series in the next edition of in the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly on 12 December 2019, as announced in the most recent edition on 26^th September.

Information on action taken by the police, including the execution of arrest warrants, to secure attendance of defendants at their trial, is not held centrally.