PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Criminal Proceedings (10 July 2014)

To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of police-charged cases in each of the last three financial years were subsequently subject to a (a) decision by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to vary the charge, (b) decision by the CPS to drop the charge, (c) decision by the CPS to offer no evidence, (d) dismissal by the court on grounds of no-case to answer and (e) dismissal by the court after trial.

Asked by:
Emily Thornberry (Labour)

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold data that would allow the identification of individual charges that had been varied at any point from the original charge.

The proportion of Police charged cases that resulted in the other requested outcomes are as follows:

	2011-2012	2012-2013	2013-2014
Dropped (includes offered no evidence)	7.7%	8.1%	8.3%
Offered no evidence	2.1%	2.5%	2.6%
No case to answer (incl. mixed pleas)	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
Dismissed after summary trial (incl. mixed pleas)	1.8%	2.1%	2.4%

Answered by:
Sir Robert Buckland (Conservative)
17 July 2014