§ Mrs. Curtis-ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of sexual abuse were heard by the Court of Appeal; of these how many were(a) upheld and (b) discharged in each year since 1996; and if he will make a statement on the (i) reasons for discharge and (ii) classification of the cases discharged. [53415]
§ Mr. WillsI have been asked to reply.
The records kept by the Court of Appeal do not record, electronically or in manual form, this type of information. The only means available to extract this data would be to resort to manual scrutiny of every case dealt with since 1996 and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.