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Crown Court: Standards

Asked by Bell Ribeiro-AddyLabourMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 9 September 2025UIN 75120

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate she has made of the number of outstanding Crown Court cases; and whether this estimate takes into account (a) case complexity and (b) the number of defendants involved.

Answered by Sarah Sackman

The number of open Crown Court cases can be found in Table_C1 of the Criminal Court Statistics quarterly release, with data currently published up to the end of March 2025. Additional breakdowns of the open caseload published here include the offences of the open caseload, but not the number of defendants involved.

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