For your information, figures for the total cases marked No Further Action for the last 5 years are published on the Crown Office website ( Case processing statistics 2017 to 2022 ). In addition, the following table provides cases marked for No Further Action since 1 April 2013 broken down by the appropriate category as used by COPFS: - Criminal cases receiving a No Further Action marking - grouped by financial year and by applied marking No Further Action reason 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 Acceptable Explanation Offered 2,245 1,984 1,589 1,548 1,188 1,003 805 685 803 Accused Dead 560 711 675 765 710 714 760 1,218 1,306 Accused in Prison 775 687 659 698 597 439 326 283 441 Accused Incapacity 186 204 253 336 232 182 148 148 195 Attitude of Victim 991 672 911 1,170 819 710 542 447 748 Crown Counsel's Instructions 401 367 284 295 212 214 213 154 127 Delay in reaching a Conclusion 577 618 859 850 605 217 128 302 342 Failed Alternative 7,027 3,154 2,693 2,089 1,556 1,912 2,324 3,438 4,704 Failed Service 7,627 9,804 4,246 3,530 3,624 2,794 2,777 2,048 3,316 Now Insufficient Evidence 5,417 5,504 6,582 6,899 5,980 4,920 4,188 2,500 3,996 Other Specified Reasons 7,690 7,260 6,576 5,893 5,132 4,728 4,710 4,096 6,826 Petition Timebar - PF Error - - - - - - - - - Reporting Deficiency 278 282 273 408 212 224 193 172 209 Warrant Withdrawn 1,664 1,195 1,692 1,469 1,297 773 590 926 546 Witness Unavailable 42 53 41 75 45 31 30 20 22 Total 35,480 32,495 27,333 26,025 22,209 18,861 17,734 16,437 23,581 Note: - Not all cases closed as No Further Action in an individual year will necessarily have been reported in the same year.