§ Mr. GapesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) criminal and (b) motoring cases were brought to trial at Redbridge magistrates court and Snaresbrook Crown court for each quarter of 1991, 1992 and 1993 to date.
§ Mr. MacleanInformation for 1991 and 1992, which is provisional, is given in the table. Information for 1993 is not yet available.
Number of defendants prosecuted at Redbridge magistrates' court and the number of defendants tried at Snaresbrook Crown Court for "criminal"1 and "motoring"2 cases by quarter 1991 and 1992* Year/ Quarter Redbridge PSD Snaresbrook CC 1Criminal 2Motoring 1Criminal 2Motoring 1991 Ql 925 1,066 1,020 4 Q2 906 1,103 1,064 4 Q3 956 1,189 1,074 4 Q4 901 1,365 935 3 1992 Ql 1,116 1,101 1,101 5 Q2 1,002 1,223 916 4 Q3 1,014 1,051 894 4 Q4 31,000 1,330 724 1 1Indictable and summary non motoring offences. 1Summary motoring offences. 3Improvements in the data collection methods used by the Metropolitan police district (MPD) have led to an increase from this quarter in the number recorded as proceeded against in magistrate courts for indictable and summary non-motoring offences of about a third in the MPD area as a whole.