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Court Cases

Volume 454: debated on Monday 11 December 2006

To ask the Solicitor-General how many cases were not proceeded with at court as a result of non-appearance of Crown Prosecution Service witnesses in (a) England and Wales and (b) Luton in the last 12 months. (105344)

The following table shows the number of defendants whose case resulted in an unsuccessful outcome because a prosecution witness failed to attend court unexpectedly in each of the last three years.

CPS England and Wales

CPS Luton

2004-05

8,473

102

2005-06

8,408

138

2006-071

5,905

78

1 1 April to 4 December 2006.