Criminal Cases Review Commission
(asked on 20th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many applications the Criminal Cases Review Commission has received in each year since its creation.
The information requested regarding the number of applications the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has received since its creation, is highlighted in the table below. This information can also be located in the published CCRC annual report.
Since its creation in 1997, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has had 20,367 applications. This figure excludes 279 applications that were transferred from the Home Office when the CCRC started operating in 1997. This is broken down as:
Year | Total Applications |
1997/8 | 1,103 |
1998/9 | 1,037 |
1999/0 | 777 |
2000/1 | 800 |
2001/2 | 834 |
2002/3 | 932 |
2003/4 | 885 |
2004/5 | 955 |
2005/6 | 1011 |
2006/7 | 1051 |
2007/8 | 984 |
2008/9 | 919 |
2009/10 | 932 |
2010/11 | 933 |
2011/12 | 1040 |
2012/13 | 1625 |
2013/14 | 1470 |
2014/15 | 1599 |
2015/16 | 1480 |