HC Deb 20 July 1978 vol 954 cc310-1W
Mr. Kenneth Clarke

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of persons committed for trial in the Crown court in Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Coventry and Birmingham, respectively, has pleaded not guilty and been tried by jury in each of the last five years; and what percentage of those persons has been acquitted.

Mr. John

The information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Figures are available only for the Crown court in England and Wales as a whole; in 1976, 31 per cent. of persons tried at the Crown court pleaded not guilty and 47 per cent. of these were acquitted.