§ Mr. John Fraserasked rile Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the typical period of time which elapsed in Greater London between the first court appearance of a defendant and trial on indictment from (a) defendants on bail and (b) prisoners in custody.
§ Mr. MayhewInformation is not available in the form requested on overall waiting time between first court appearance and trial on indictment. However, in the year ending June 1981, the latest period for which figures are available, average waiting time between committal for trial and trial in London Crown court centres was 28 weeks for defendants on bail and 131½ weeks for defendants in custody. Also, estimates of the distribution of the time between first remand on bail at magistrates' courts to the completion of proceedings in magistrates' courts—trial or committal—for those first remanded in the period May-October 1978 are published for inner and outer London in table 7 of Home Office statistical bulletin issue No. 22/81, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House.
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