§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many criminal appeals were lodged and disposed of respectively in each of the years 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Elton)The information available on the result of criminal appeals, by court of conviction or sentence is published in Tables 6.7 and 6.8 ofCriminal Statistics, England and Wales 1980 (Cmnd. 8376). Other information available, relating to criminal appeals and their outcome is included in the data published annually in Judicial Statistics Annual Report, (Tables A3(b), A5, A7 and B3 of the 1980 Report (Cmnd. 8436)). Copies of these publications have been placed in the Library of the House. Information for 1981 is not yet available.