Ministry of Justice · Criminal court statistics quarterly
Crown Court receipts
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)
- Ministry of Justice count
- 2026 Q1
- published 25 June 2026
- Table C1
- row “2026 Q1”
- column “All cases: Receipts”
- cell value 29426
2016 Q1 to 2026 Q1
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
Related metrics
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 Q2 | 29,4262026 Q1 | ↓ 3.1% |
| Conservative 2019–2024 | 26,0802019 Q3 | 30,3612024 Q2 | ↑ 16.4% |
| Conservative 2017–2019 | 28,6652017 Q1 | 26,0802019 Q3 | ↓ 9.0% |
- Release
- January to March 2026 · publication page
- Last updated
- 25 June 2026
- Next release expected
- September 2026 (estimated from the usual cadence)