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Ministry of Justice · 9 June 2017 – 13 December 2019

Convictions during the Conservative 2017–2019 government

Year ending March 2017 → Year ending March 2019 · 2 periods

↓ 3.7%−45,649 offenders

Convictions fell by 3.7% over the period, from 1,243,418 offenders (Year ending March 2017, the level when the government took office) to 1,197,769 (Year ending March 2019, the last complete period before it left office).

  1. Inherited level Year ending March 2017: 1,243,418
  2. Level when it left Year ending March 2019: 1,197,769
  3. 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.

Convictions: Year ending March 2016 to Year ending March 2026ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0500k1m201620182020202220242026Before: Figures as originally processed. After: Figures reprocessed ahead of the 2023 Q2 edition.methodology changeYear ending March 2016: 1,253,476 offenders · published 30 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 1,243,418 offenders · published 30 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 1,203,044 offenders · published 30 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 1,197,769 offenders · published 30 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 1,164,836 offenders · published 30 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 768,736 offenders · published 30 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 1,000,783 offenders · published 30 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 1,061,982 offenders · published 30 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 1,135,511 offenders · published 30 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 1,196,644 offenders · published 30 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 1,195,840 offenders · published 30 July 2026
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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.