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Ministry of Justice · Criminal court statistics quarterly

Crown Court receipts

2026 Q1 Final

29,426cases

Crown Court receipts were 29,426 cases in 2026 Q1, down 2.5% (748) from 30,174 in 2025 Q1.

▼ 2.5% · −748 against 2025 Q1 (same quarter previous year)

  1. Ministry of Justice count
  2. 2026 Q1
  3. published 25 June 2026
  4. Table C1
  5. row “2026 Q1”
  6. column “All cases: Receipts”
  7. cell value 29426

2016 Q1 to 2026 Q1

Crown Court receipts: 2016 Q1 to 2026 Q1ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour010k20k30k2016201820202022202420262016 Q1: 28,681 cases · published 25 June 20262016 Q2: 27,764 cases · published 25 June 20262016 Q3: 28,343 cases · published 25 June 20262016 Q4: 27,222 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q1: 28,665 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q2: 27,758 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q3: 27,098 cases · published 25 June 20262017 Q4: 25,839 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q1: 24,855 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q2: 24,350 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q3: 24,902 cases · published 25 June 20262018 Q4: 23,985 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q1: 25,292 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q2: 25,357 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q3: 26,080 cases · published 25 June 20262019 Q4: 25,680 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q1: 25,538 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q2: 14,001 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q3: 28,231 cases · published 25 June 20262020 Q4: 27,678 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q1: 25,886 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q2: 24,719 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q3: 22,934 cases · published 25 June 20262021 Q4: 21,971 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q1: 24,049 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q2: 23,617 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q3: 23,536 cases · published 25 June 20262022 Q4: 23,528 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q1: 24,808 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q2: 26,894 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q3: 28,342 cases · published 25 June 20262023 Q4: 27,324 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q1: 29,992 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q2: 30,361 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q3: 31,746 cases · published 25 June 20262024 Q4: 29,529 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q1: 30,174 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q2: 30,492 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q3: 30,394 cases · published 25 June 20262025 Q4: 29,569 cases · published 25 June 20262026 Q1: 29,426 cases · published 25 June 2026
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What this measures

The number of criminal cases received by the Crown Court in England and Wales during the quarter, including cases sent for trial or sentence, appeals against magistrates' decisions and requests for retrial.

What this doesn’t measure

Cases received by magistrates' courts, the number of defendants, or cases in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Important caveat

A receipt is a case received from the magistrates' courts in the quarter, including cases sent for trial or sentence, appeals of magistrates' decisions and requests for retrial. A disposal is counted once all offences for all defendants on the case have a final result recorded or have been remitted to the magistrates' court. From the October to December 2024 edition these figures come from the One Crown data pipeline and are not directly comparable with earlier editions of the table. Data before 2014 was produced on a different methodology.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Ministry of Justice
Publication
Criminal court statistics quarterly
Release
January to March 2026, published 25 June 2026
Source file
ccsq_2026Q1.ods
File SHA-256
b6823b9b68923d7039050194eb303b8fc1a1071f5f6a555585d15cf21146dd40
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
Table_C1
Table
Table C1
Row
2026 Q1
Column
All cases: Receipts
Cell value
29426
Geography
England and Wales
Unit
cases
API
/api/metrics/crown_court_receipts · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–30,3612024 Q229,4262026 Q1↓ 3.1%
Conservative 2019–202426,0802019 Q330,3612024 Q2↑ 16.4%
Conservative 2017–201928,6652017 Q126,0802019 Q3↓ 9.0%

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Release
January to March 2026 · publication page
Last updated
25 June 2026
Next release expected
September 2026 (estimated from the usual cadence)