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Prosecutions

Volume 504: debated on Tuesday 26 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prosecutions there have been which resulted in a conviction in each of the last six months. (312457)

I have been asked to reply.

Table 1 shows the number of defendants prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service whose case was completed in each of the six months ending December 2009. Case outcomes are broken down into convictions and unsuccessful outcomes, the latter figure comprising all outcomes other than a conviction, and are also expressed as a proportion of completed cases.

Table 2 shows figures for England and Wales as a whole, and for CPS North Yorkshire.

Crown Prosecution Service completed prosecutions, July to December 2009

(1) CPS national

Convictions

Unsuccessful

2009

Number

Percentage

Number

Percentage

Total

July

77,571

86.2

12,382

13.8

89,953

August

66,930

86.0

10,889

14.0

77,819

September

76,583

86.1

12,335

13.9

88,918

October

71,385

86.0

11,634

14.0

83,019

November

69,274

86.0

11,301

14.0

80,575

December

62,881

85.7

10,496

14.3

73,377

(2) CPS North Yorkshire

Convictions

Unsuccessful

2009

Number

Percentage

Number

Percentage

Total

July

857

87.4

124

12.6

981

August

768

89.9

86

10.1

854

September

892

88.9

111

11.1

1,003

October

856

87.7

120

12.3

976

November

834

88.6

107

11.4

941

December 09

736

88.7

94

11.3

830