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Ineffective Trials

Mrs. Humble: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs what the rate of ineffective trials for (a) Crown and (b) magistrates courts was in each local Criminal Justice Board area in (i) 2001 and (ii) 2005. [222903]

 
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Mr. Leslie: We are unable to provide the information for individual magistrates courts without incurring disproportionate cost, but we are able to provide on an LCJB area basis for the Crown and magistrates and on an individual court basis for the Crown.

LCJB area data collection began in rolling quarter ending June 2001 for the Crown and June 2002 for the magistrates.
 
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Table A shows Crown and magistrates court LCJB area ineffective trial rates for the earliest point available and for the most recent rolling quarter (ending January 2005).

Table B shows Crown court ineffective trial rates for rolling quarter ending June 2001 and the most recent rolling quarter, January 2005.
Table A: Crown and magistrates LCJB area ineffective trial rates

Percentage
	Crown		Magistrates
	Ineffective trial rate quarter ending		Ineffective trial rate quarter ending
	June 2001	January 2005	June 2002	January 2005
England and Wales	24.2	15.1	30.8	23.7
Avon and Somerset	25.5	17.4	24.4	13.4
Bedfordshire	24.1	11.4	26.5	33.2
Cambridgeshire	33.3	14.7	23.0	19.2
Cheshire	20.0	11.9	27.5	17.6
Cleveland	25.7	19.1	33.3	20.7
Cumbria	26.5	11.3	20.3	16.5
Derbyshire	20.1	21.8	30.4	26.2
Devon and Cornwall	15.7	12.9	19.4	18.7
Dorset	12.7	6.9	30.2	16.0
Durham	26.4	7.8	24.4	32.0
Dyfed Powys	13.6	9.6	27.2	16.2
Essex	21.6	21.6	30.5	22.8
Gloucestershire	35.6	11.4	23.3	26.4
Greater London	25.7	15.7	39.8	28.7
Greater Manchester	26.7	15.6	27.7	20.1
Gwent	13.4	12.9	35.3	20.7
Hampshire and Isle of Wight	21.3	15.3	33.4	23.7
Hertfordshire	26.9	17.7	32.3	23.3
Humberside	21.6	11.2	38.8	19.1
Kent	24.9	18.3	25.1	22.7
Lancashire	28.2	16.2	27.0	22.8
Leicestershire	33.5	13.7	28.7	24.5
Lincolnshire	14.9	12.3	22.2	21.4
Merseyside	21.8	14.9	37.3	25.9
Norfolk	21.8	10.6	21.1	19.2
North Wales	14.1	19.3	23.6	15.5
North Yorkshire	17.4	23.2	18.9	19.7
Northamptonshire	22.9	6.1	28.7	18.3
Northumbria	22.5	17.8	32.8	25.8
Nottinghamshire	30.3	12.1	36.9	25.0
South Wales	13.5	9.3	27.9	18.5
South Yorkshire	26.3	14.1	24.0	25.5
Staffordshire	16.3	8.6	23.2	20.8
Suffolk	10.7	6.0	21.1	14.2
Surrey	28.4	10.1	23.5	23.2
Sussex	25.3	15.1	39.6	22.7
Thames Valley	20.8	8.6	30.6	20.9
Warwickshire	12.5	15.4	14.4	8.6
West Mercia	26.8	16.1	33.0	26.2
West Midlands	27.9	16.7	26.9	23.8
West Yorkshire	19.7	15.2	27.6	24.9
Wiltshire	16.2	8.7	33.8	20.0

Table B: LCJB Crown court ineffective trial rates

Percentage
	Ineffective trial rate quarter ending
	January 2001	January 2005
England and Wales	24.2	15.1
Aylesbury Crown	14.6	15.1
Barnstaple Crown	0.0	0.0
Barrow-in-Furness Crown	33.3	50.0
Basildon Crown	20.3	23.1
Birmingham Crown	27.7	19.0
Blackfriars Crown	27.3	18.2
Bolton Crown	28.1	18.0
Bournemouth Crown	12.7	9.1
Bradford Crown	17.4	17.0
Bristol Crown	24.1	19.1
Burnley Crown	32.3	15.2
Caernarfon Crown	6.7	6.7
Cambridge Crown	31.0	6.9
Canterbury Crown	22.3	20.7
Cardiff Crown	13.0	14.5
Carlisle Crown	27.4	9.9
Carmarthen Crown	0.0	14.3
Central Criminal Court	10.6	2.2
Chelmsford Crown	22.7	19.7
Chester Crown	16.7	12.5
Chichester Crown	21.2	9.1
Coventry Crown	20.0	16.1
Croydon Crown	21.9	11.2
Derby Crown	20.5	21.6
Doncaster Crown	32.6	21.8
Durham Crown	38.3	9.2
Exeter Crown	9.3	2.6
Gloucester Crown	35.7	9.1
Grimsby Crown	32.6	8.2
Guildford Crown	28.0	10.1
Harrow Crown	28.0	15.8
Haverfordwest Crown	0.0	0.0
Hereford Crown	0.0	13.0
Hull Crown	15.3	11.7
I.L.S.H. Crown	33.3	18.4
Ipswich Crown	10.9	6.0
Isleworth Crown	25.6	15.5
Kingston upon Thames Crown	30.8	17.8
Knutsford Crown	20.8	23.5
Lancaster Crown	34.1	10.0
Leeds Crown	21.3	13.1
Leicester Crown	33.5	13.7
Lewes Crown	27.7	17.1
Lincoln Crown	16.0	12.3
Liverpool Crown	21.9	14.8
Luton Crown	23.8	12.8
Maidstone Crown	28.3	16.9
Merthyr Tydfil Crown	8.5	6.0
Mold Crown	21.3	29.7
Newcastle Crown	19.7	17.9
Newport (IOW) Crown	29.6	16.7
Newport Crown	15.9	9.1
Northampton Crown	22.2	6.0
Norwich Crown	20.0	10.1
Nottingham Crown	30.0	13.3
Oxford Crown	17.2	3.2
Peterborough Crown	37.1	19.0
Plymouth Crown	20.6	23.1
Portsmouth Crown	13.2	13.3
Preston Crown	25.3	17.4
Reading Crown	24.8	8.8
Salisbury Crown	0.0	12.5
Sheffield Crown	23.9	11.6
Shrewsbury Crown	32.1	22.2
Snaresbrook Crown	29.0	20.5
Southampton Crown	23.1	16.1
Southwark Crown	24.0	14.5
Stafford Crown	20.1	6.9
Swansea Crown	14.8	7.4
Swindon Crown	24.0	9.1
Taunton Crown	20.9	6.7
Teesside Crown	22.7	19.3
Truro Crown	26.7	6.5
Warrington Crown	21.7	7.7
Warwick Crown	16.7	13.0
Weymouth Crown	6.7	0.0
Winchester Crown	30.0	16.5
Wolverhampton Crown	32.0	13.2
Wood Green Crown	20.0	10.9
Woolwich Crown	24.6	12.6
Worcester Crown	23.3	11.3
York Crown	17.8	22.1
Manchester (Minshull Street) Crown	26.6	16.2
Middlesex Guildhall Crown	25.3	10.9
St. Albans Crown	26.7	18.0
Stoke on Trent Crown	17.6	12.9
Manchester (Crown Square) Crown	25.5	12.5

 
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Planning

Andy Burnham: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs in how many cases legal aid has been awarded to challenge a planning decision made by a Secretary of State in each year since 2000. [223410]

Mr. Lammy: Challenges against planning decisions made by a Secretary of State are made in the High Court. Civil legal aid is available in such cases subject to the statutory tests of the applicant's means and the
 
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merits of the case. The only figures that the Legal Services Commission (LSC) can identify are for appeals against a decision of the Secretary of State under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and/or the Planning Compensation Act 1991. The number of funded cases are as follows:

	Number
2000–01	0
2001–02	2
2002–03	1
2003–04	2
2004–05	1

The figures given do not cover any challenges of planning decisions made by a Secretary of State by way of Judicial Review. The LSC does not record figures for Judicial Review by way of type of application.

Targets

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs (1) what recent progress has been made towards the public service agreement target to improve the delivery of justice in all criminal justice system areas, with a greater increase in the worst performing areas; [219139]

(2) what recent progress has been made towards the public service agreement target to increase the level of confidence in the criminal justice system within ethnic communities; [219142]

(3) what recent progress has been made towards the Public Service Agreement target to increase the satisfaction of victims and witnesses with the criminal justice system. [219143]

Mr. Leslie: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Crime Reduction, Policing and Community Safety on 16 March 2005, Official Report, column 336W.

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs what recent progress has been made towards the public service agreement target to improve the level of public confidence in the criminal justice system. [219141]

Mr. Leslie: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for the Home Office on 7 March 2005, Official Report, column 1621w.

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