Justice written question – answered at on 10 September 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people were (a) remanded in custody and (b) granted bail in each month since May 2010.
The issue of bail is for the courts to decide following clearly set out procedures. The statutory structure is provided primarily by the Bail Act 1976, which creates a general presumption to bail for all defendants involved in criminal proceedings with certain exceptions.
The number of defendants remanded in custody and the number granted bail in each month at all courts in England and Wales between
The proportion of those suspects granted bail has remained constant throughout this period.
Defendants remanded in custody and defendants remanded on bail at all courts(1) in England and Wales, by month(2), 2010-12(3) | |||||||||||||
Number | |||||||||||||
Year/remand status/court type | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
2012 | |||||||||||||
Remanded in custody(4) | |||||||||||||
Magistrates courts | 1,816 | 1,859 | 1,908 | 1,683 | 2,185 | 1,785 | 1,959 | 2,009 | 1,902 | 2,010 | 1,886 | 1,511 | 22,513 |
The Crown court | 3,314 | 3,370 | 3,736 | 3,010 | 3,484 | 3,053 | 3,296 | 3,228 | 3,003 | 3,454 | 3,426 | 2,687 | 39,061 |
Remanded on bail | |||||||||||||
Magistrates courts | 18,505 | 17,217 | 17,273 | 14,759 | 17,431 | 15,623 | 17,937 | 17,289 | 16,211 | 18,729 | 17,708 | 12,621 | 201,303 |
The Crown court | 6,294 | 6,375 | 6,971 | 5,544 | 6,101 | 5,246 | 5,681 | 5,586 | 5,280 | 5,952 | 5,911 | 3,913 | 68,854 |
2011(5) | |||||||||||||
Remanded in custody(4) | |||||||||||||
Magistrates courts | 1,881 | 1,835 | 2,007 | 1,606 | 1,889 | 2,164 | 1,956 | 2,074 | 2,121 | 1,927 | 2,114 | 1,810 | 23,384 |
The Crown court | 3,528 | 3,745 | 4,102 | 3,211 | 3,630 | 3,651 | 3,768 | 3,493 | 3,979 | 3,732 | 3,885 | 3,702 | 44,426 |
Remanded on bail | |||||||||||||
Magistrates courts | 19,406 | 18,349 | 20,163 | 16,090 | 18,171 | 19,153 | 18,705 | 18,538 | 18,658 | 18,115 | 18,167 | 13,917 | 217,432 |
The Crown court | 6,883 | 6,779 | 7,516 | 5,816 | 6,350 | 6,543 | 6,734 | 6,101 | 6,867 | 6,179 | 6,595 | 5,451 | 77,814 |
2010 | |||||||||||||
Remanded in custody(4) |
Magistrates courts | 2,829 | 2,468 | 2,587 | 2,238 | 2,122 | 2,280 | 2,312 | 2,073 | 2,147 | 1,947 | 1,999 | 1,608 | 26,610 |
The Crown court | 3,032 | 3,333 | 3,862 | 3,103 | 3,186 | 3,759 | 4,134 | 3,500 | 3,698 | 3,744 | 4,097 | 3,347 | 42,795 |
Remanded on bail(6) | |||||||||||||
Magistrates courts | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
The Crown court | 5,996 | 6,553 | 7,497 | 6,467 | 6,514 | 6,904 | 7,705 | 6,548 | 7,221 | 6,992 | 7,344 | 5,421 | 81,162 |
n/a = Not available - see footnote 6 below. (1) Includes those defendants remanded in custody or remanded on bail during proceedings at magistrates courts and those defendants remanded in custody or remanded on bail at the commencement of trial or sentence at the Crown court in England and Wales. The magistrates courts component of the data presented in this table excludes those defendants who failed to appear and those who were committed for trial or sentence at the Crown court. The remand status used for the Crown court component of the data is that recorded at the point of committal from the magistrates court to the Crown court for trial or sentence. Those who failed to appear at the Crown court are excluded from the figures presented in this table. (2) The table presents data by month based on the final date on which the defendants appeared in court and proceedings were concluded. The date on which the court made remand decisions on those defendants is not held centrally, with remand decisions potentially made at an earlier stage during proceedings in previous months. (3) The magistrates courts component of the data presented in this table are estimated. (4) Including those remanded in custody at any stage of proceedings at magistrates courts or the Crown court who may also have been given bail at some stage of those proceedings. (5) Previously published figures for 2011 have been revised to take account of the late receipt of some data from magistrates courts. Data from the Crown court are not affected. (6) A revised process by which estimates of the number of defendants bailed at magistrates courts is only possible to apply to magistrates courts data relating to 1 January 2011 onwards. Therefore the figures presented in this table prior to that date include numbers of defendants bailed at the Crown court only as these data are not subject to the new estimation process applicable to the magistrates courts data. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice. |
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