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Mr. Bates
To ask the Attorney-General if he will make a statement about the proportion of Crown Prosecution Service prosecutions in the magistrates courts which are successful.
The Solicitor-General
For the year ending 31 March 1993, 97ยท6 per cent. of cases which proceeded to a hearing in the magistrates court resulted in either a guilty plea or a conviction.