Prosecutions
Commons · Question 69697 · Tabled 21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 1 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the proportion of Single Justice Procedure cases where the defendant did not respond to the notice and was convicted in absence.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Sackman, 1 Sep 2025
The Ministry of Justice does not hold data on the number of defendants who failed to respond to a Single Justice Procedure (SJP) notice and were therefore convicted in absence. Information and statistics on plea response for SJP cases is published here: S...