Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June to Question 11833 on Aiding and Abetting: Convictions, what his Department has made in investigating the best way to capture data about joint enterprise on the Common Platform.

HMCTS has developed technical options in respect of a result or flag which will allow a user, in consultation with Crown Prosecution Service, to identify cases involving joint enterprise which can then be collated and reported on by HMCTS.

Following evaluation of these options the recommended solution will then follow a governance and prioritisation process before being scheduled for delivery. Once the relevant data is captured on the Common Platform, officials will be able to assess which further steps would need to be undertaken for it to be measured and reported on correctly.

This data may then, with further work, be made publishable as a national statistic.