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Prosecutions

To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions the Crown Prosecution Service has discontinued in the last three years; and for what reasons.

answeredAttorney General

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Answering body
Attorney General
Tabled
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
8 Sept 2025
Answer
11 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions the Crown Prosecution Service has discontinued in the last three years; and for what reasons.

  2. 8 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Management information held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) shows the number of defendants whose prosecution was dropped by the CPS and the primary reason allocated to the outcome at finalisation.The table below shows the number and proportion of p...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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