Ministry of Justice · ODS · quarterly · England and Wales
Criminal court statistics quarterly: Crown Court waiting times
Tables C6 (waiting times for all cases closed and by case type), C7 (trials by plea) and C8 (trials by remand status): median and mean weeks from committal to the case being heard, for defendants whose cases closed in the quarter. Annual rows (Quarter = "All") are skipped.
- Official page
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics
- Authority
- First-party official statistics · OGL-UK-3.0
- Latest release
- January to March 2026, published 25 June 2026
- Next expected
- September 2026 (estimated)
- Extractor
- ingest/ukdata/extractors/moj_criminal_court_stats.py
Metrics read from this publication
| Metric | Sheet · table | Row label | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crown Court median waiting time | Table_C6 · Table C6 | Quarter | weeks |
| Crown Court median waiting time for trial | Table_C7 · Table C7 | Quarter | weeks |
| Crown Court median waiting time for trial by pleabreakdown by plea | Table_C7 · Table C7 | Quarter | weeks |
| Crown Court median waiting time for trial by remand statusbreakdown by remand status | Table_C8 · Table C8 | Quarter | weeks |
Releases ingested
| Published | Release | Observations | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2026 | January to March 2026 | 369 | ccsq_2026Q1.ods sha256 b6823b9b68923d70… |
API: crown_court_waiting_weeks · crown_court_trial_waiting_weeks