Number of summary cases to be completed in 26 weeks and more than a year: FOI release
- Published
- 4 December 2020
- Directorate
- Safer Communities Directorate
- Topic
- Law and order, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202000103637
- Date received
- 24 October 2020
- Date responded
- 17 November 2020
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
You asked for:
How many summary cases were completed in 26 weeks in (a) 2015/16 (b) 2016/17 (c) 2017/18 (d) 2018/19 and (e) 2019/20. Please provide this as a whole number, and a percentage of the total number of cases completed.
How many cases took more than a year to complete in (a) 2015/16 (b) 2016/17 (c) 2017/18 (d) 2018/19 and (e) 2019/20. Please provide this as a whole number, and a percentage of the total number of cases completed.
Response
The answer to your question is provided in the following table:
| Caution/Charge to verdict within 26 weeks | Caution/Charge to verdict over 1 year | |||
| Year | Number Completed | % of total | Number Completed | % of total |
| 2015-16 | 62,056 | 61% | 14,918 | 15% |
| 2016-17 | 62,124 | 64% | 13,203 | 14% |
| 2017-18 | 55,125 | 66% | 9,666 | 12% |
| 2018-19 | 53,448 | 68% | 7,915 | 10% |
| 2019-20 | 50,311 | 69% | 7,456 | 10% |
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