HC Deb 25 January 2002 vol 378 cc1179-80W
Mr. Lilley

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what proportion of defendants who appealed against conviction in a magistrates court and whose case was reheard in the Crown court in 2000 were found(a) not guilty and (b) guilty. [29694]

Mr. Wills

Information held centrally relating to the results of appeals to the Crown court is limited and is not collected in a form to provide an answer to the hon. Member's question without incurring disproportionate cost. For information purposes, however, the table provides figures for receipts, by type of appeal, and outcome, by type of result, of appeals to the Crown court during 2000.

Appeals to the Crown court, 2000
Number
Net receipts
Conviction/sentence 5,341
Sentence only 7,691
Other1 870
Total 13,902
Results
Allowed 3,090
Dismissed 4,485
Varied 3,268
Other2 3,512
Total 14,355
1 Eg liquor licence refusals and non-renewal of shotgun certificates
2 Abandoned appeals, remitted to magistrates, other results