The latest figures across all Justice metrics.
Prison Population · Women
3,348+10
20 Jul 2026
Prison Population · Population
86,098+61
20 Jul 2026
Legal Aid · Cases funded
377,459+27k
2025-26 Jan-Mar
Legal Aid · Civil
£422m+521.6%
2025-26 Jan-Mar
Legal Aid · Criminal
£284m+0.9%
2025-26 Jan-Mar
Legal Aid · Total spend
£723m+97.6%
2025-26 Jan-Mar
Remand Population · Share of prison
18.4%−1.1%
2026 Q1
Remand Population · Convicted unsentenced
5,430−259
2026 Q1
Remand Population · Untried
10,573−342
2026 Q1
Prison Population · Remand
16,003−601
2026 Q1
Prison Population · Sentenced
70,360+2.2k
2026 Q1
Time to Completion · Crown Court
712+4.5
2026 Q1
Time to Completion · All criminal
238+5.6
2026 Q1
Crown Court Backlog · Disposals
29,600+813
2026 Q1
Crown Court Backlog · Receipts
29,426−143
2026 Q1
Crown Court Backlog · Magistrates'
370,722+5.9k
2026 Q1
Crown Court Backlog · Outstanding
80,061−37
2026 Q1
Probation Caseload · Post-release licence
65,743+1.4k
2025 Q4
Probation Caseload · Community order
111,226+1.1k
2025 Q4
Probation Caseload · Total
248,568+2.1k
2025 Q4
Proven Reoffending · After community sentence
34.1%+1.6%
2023/24
Proven Reoffending · After custody
41.2%+3.7%
2023/24
Proven Reoffending · Youth
31.8%−0.7%
2023/24
Proven Reoffending · Adult
28.0%+2.0%
2023/24
The number of cases waiting in the Crown Court in England and Wales, where the most serious offences are tried by jury. This is the outstanding caseload: cases unresolved, not new arrivals. When it rises, victims, witnesses and defendants wait longer, and more accused people are held on remand, in custody before trial; when it falls, waits ease.
Source: Ministry of Justice / HMCTS · Criminal Court Statistics
Coverage: England & Wales
Six deny wrongdoing over drone factory break-in
BBC News · 7 August 2026
Adam Collard and pregnant fiancee Laura Woods arrive at court for his dad’s assault trial
Metro · Milo Pope · 7 August 2026
Met Police officer convicted of common assault for spraying colleague with PAVA spray
Evening Standard · Megan Howe · 6 August 2026
Disgraced ex-reality TV star Stephen Bear is jailed again
The Independent · Rom Preston-Ellis · 6 August 2026
Farmer who killed lodger and hid body in concrete in South Yorkshire jailed for life
The Guardian · Raphael Boyd · 6 August 2026
Reporting from the left, centre and right of the press.
Blue's Lee Ryan seeks Supreme Court appeal over racially aggravated assault conviction
Daily Mirror · Laura Harman · 7 August 2026
How police let a registered sex offender murder and attack women
BBC News · Daniel de Simone · 7 August 2026
Tube monster bailed to rape and murder: Kemi Badenoch leads chorus of outrage over sex predator Simon Levy - who was repeatedly freed to carry on attacking women
Daily Mail · 7 August 2026
