Year ending March 2024 → Year ending March 2026 · 2 periods
↑ 5.3%+60,329 offenders
Convictions rose by 5.3% over the period, from 1,135,511 offenders (Year ending March 2024, the level when the government took office) to 1,195,840 (Year ending March 2026, the latest available).
Inherited level Year ending March 2024: 1,135,511
Latest Year ending March 2026: 1,195,840
method: latest complete period before start / before end
Changes during this period do not by themselves show what the government caused. Statistics reflect many influences, including earlier decisions, the economy and how the data is collected.
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Definition and caveats
The number of offenders convicted at magistrates' courts and the Crown Court in England and Wales in the twelve months ending March, on a principal-offence basis.
Doesn’t measure: Cautions and other out-of-court disposals, or a conviction rate; a person convicted in a different year from the one they were prosecuted in appears in different years' figures.