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1730189

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her Department's timescale is for ensuring that reforms to operational systems resulting from HMCTS's transformation programme capture more detailed management information; and whether her Department plans to publish that detailed management information.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith and Chiswick
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	5948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2024 answer text <p>As the Reform Programme concludes in March 2025 and new systems are implemented and embedded, they will - in most instances - ensure more detailed data is captured.</p><p>Not only are reformed services making a difference directly to those who use them, they’re now giving us quality insights we need for the first time, to support evidence-based decisions around further improving service. For example, Reform has made it possible to collect a much wider range of data on our users including their protected characteristics, which means we can better understand how to improve access to justice.</p><p>This ability will be an ongoing feature of our work in future and help us inform improvements in the wider system.</p><p>As new data becomes available it will be considered for publication as management information or accredited official statistics to meet user needs in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 09/10/2024 10:43:44 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1730190

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Statistics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly for October to December 2023, published on 28 March 2024, if her Department will make an assessment of the accuracy of the estimate of the outstanding caseload in the Crown Court.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith and Chiswick
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	5949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.</p><p>That initial work highlighted some necessary changes to court processing systems to enable robust and accurate data to be produced. These fixes do not affect the operation of the courts and are purely an issue for the data reporting.</p><p><br> Despite these data issues, we know that the Crown Court outstanding caseload has been increasing in the last 6 months, and remains one of the biggest pressures facing the criminal justice system.</p><p>These data fixes are being implemented alongside work to align the Ministry of Justice Official Accredited statistics and HMCTS management information methodologies. This will benefit users by providing greater transparency and coherence in court data.</p><p><br> Publishing accurate statistics for our criminal courts is vital for public confidence in the justice system. I recognise that the prolonged absence of timely and accurate data is an unsatisfactory position. This work is a departmental priority and, is underway to deliver an updated data series (including those missing quarters) as soon as possible when we are confident it meets the required level of accuracy. The Government looks forward to updating the House on the action we are taking soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander grouped question UIN 5950 5951 5952 5953 5954 5955 question first answered 14/10/2024 09:15:35 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1730191

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Statistics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the delayed publication of the criminal court statistics due to an issue affecting the accuracy of the data, what steps her Department is taking to (a) mitigate against potential inaccuracies in that data that is used for criminal justice system planning or modelling and (b) ensure the accuracy of data used in making strategic decisions on sitting days.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith and Chiswick
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	5950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.</p><p>That initial work highlighted some necessary changes to court processing systems to enable robust and accurate data to be produced. These fixes do not affect the operation of the courts and are purely an issue for the data reporting.</p><p><br> Despite these data issues, we know that the Crown Court outstanding caseload has been increasing in the last 6 months, and remains one of the biggest pressures facing the criminal justice system.</p><p>These data fixes are being implemented alongside work to align the Ministry of Justice Official Accredited statistics and HMCTS management information methodologies. This will benefit users by providing greater transparency and coherence in court data.</p><p><br> Publishing accurate statistics for our criminal courts is vital for public confidence in the justice system. I recognise that the prolonged absence of timely and accurate data is an unsatisfactory position. This work is a departmental priority and, is underway to deliver an updated data series (including those missing quarters) as soon as possible when we are confident it meets the required level of accuracy. The Government looks forward to updating the House on the action we are taking soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander grouped question UIN 5949 5951 5952 5953 5954 5955 question first answered 14/10/2024 09:15:35 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1730192

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Statistics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the statement on her Department’s webpage entitled Criminal court statistics, which Criminal court statistics quarterly publication was the first to require work to assure the quality of source data.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith and Chiswick
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	5951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.</p><p>That initial work highlighted some necessary changes to court processing systems to enable robust and accurate data to be produced. These fixes do not affect the operation of the courts and are purely an issue for the data reporting.</p><p><br> Despite these data issues, we know that the Crown Court outstanding caseload has been increasing in the last 6 months, and remains one of the biggest pressures facing the criminal justice system.</p><p>These data fixes are being implemented alongside work to align the Ministry of Justice Official Accredited statistics and HMCTS management information methodologies. This will benefit users by providing greater transparency and coherence in court data.</p><p><br> Publishing accurate statistics for our criminal courts is vital for public confidence in the justice system. I recognise that the prolonged absence of timely and accurate data is an unsatisfactory position. This work is a departmental priority and, is underway to deliver an updated data series (including those missing quarters) as soon as possible when we are confident it meets the required level of accuracy. The Government looks forward to updating the House on the action we are taking soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander grouped question UIN 5949 5950 5952 5953 5954 5955 question first answered 14/10/2024 09:15:35 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1730193

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Statistics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the issue affecting the quality of the data for the Criminal Court Statistics affects data on the number of Crown Court cases disposed of each month.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith and Chiswick
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	5952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.</p><p>That initial work highlighted some necessary changes to court processing systems to enable robust and accurate data to be produced. These fixes do not affect the operation of the courts and are purely an issue for the data reporting.</p><p><br> Despite these data issues, we know that the Crown Court outstanding caseload has been increasing in the last 6 months, and remains one of the biggest pressures facing the criminal justice system.</p><p>These data fixes are being implemented alongside work to align the Ministry of Justice Official Accredited statistics and HMCTS management information methodologies. This will benefit users by providing greater transparency and coherence in court data.</p><p><br> Publishing accurate statistics for our criminal courts is vital for public confidence in the justice system. I recognise that the prolonged absence of timely and accurate data is an unsatisfactory position. This work is a departmental priority and, is underway to deliver an updated data series (including those missing quarters) as soon as possible when we are confident it meets the required level of accuracy. The Government looks forward to updating the House on the action we are taking soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander grouped question UIN 5949 5950 5951 5953 5954 5955 question first answered 14/10/2024 09:15:35 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1730194

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department’s data cleanse of the magistrates’ court data will (a) help with listing, (b) benefit other court processes and (c) improve the accuracy of the statistics.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith and Chiswick
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	5953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.</p><p>That initial work highlighted some necessary changes to court processing systems to enable robust and accurate data to be produced. These fixes do not affect the operation of the courts and are purely an issue for the data reporting.</p><p><br> Despite these data issues, we know that the Crown Court outstanding caseload has been increasing in the last 6 months, and remains one of the biggest pressures facing the criminal justice system.</p><p>These data fixes are being implemented alongside work to align the Ministry of Justice Official Accredited statistics and HMCTS management information methodologies. This will benefit users by providing greater transparency and coherence in court data.</p><p><br> Publishing accurate statistics for our criminal courts is vital for public confidence in the justice system. I recognise that the prolonged absence of timely and accurate data is an unsatisfactory position. This work is a departmental priority and, is underway to deliver an updated data series (including those missing quarters) as soon as possible when we are confident it meets the required level of accuracy. The Government looks forward to updating the House on the action we are taking soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander grouped question UIN 5949 5950 5951 5952 5954 5955 question first answered 14/10/2024 09:15:35 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1730195

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Statistics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish the Criminal Court Statistics datasets due to be published in (a) June, (b) September and (c) December 2024 by the end of 2024.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith and Chiswick
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	5954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.</p><p>That initial work highlighted some necessary changes to court processing systems to enable robust and accurate data to be produced. These fixes do not affect the operation of the courts and are purely an issue for the data reporting.</p><p><br> Despite these data issues, we know that the Crown Court outstanding caseload has been increasing in the last 6 months, and remains one of the biggest pressures facing the criminal justice system.</p><p>These data fixes are being implemented alongside work to align the Ministry of Justice Official Accredited statistics and HMCTS management information methodologies. This will benefit users by providing greater transparency and coherence in court data.</p><p><br> Publishing accurate statistics for our criminal courts is vital for public confidence in the justice system. I recognise that the prolonged absence of timely and accurate data is an unsatisfactory position. This work is a departmental priority and, is underway to deliver an updated data series (including those missing quarters) as soon as possible when we are confident it meets the required level of accuracy. The Government looks forward to updating the House on the action we are taking soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander grouped question UIN 5949 5950 5951 5952 5953 5955 question first answered 14/10/2024 09:15:35 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1730196

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish a breakdown of the magistrates' court backlog showing the number of (a) Single Justice Procedure cases and (b) cases that have to go to a hearing.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith and Chiswick
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	5955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.</p><p>That initial work highlighted some necessary changes to court processing systems to enable robust and accurate data to be produced. These fixes do not affect the operation of the courts and are purely an issue for the data reporting.</p><p><br> Despite these data issues, we know that the Crown Court outstanding caseload has been increasing in the last 6 months, and remains one of the biggest pressures facing the criminal justice system.</p><p>These data fixes are being implemented alongside work to align the Ministry of Justice Official Accredited statistics and HMCTS management information methodologies. This will benefit users by providing greater transparency and coherence in court data.</p><p><br> Publishing accurate statistics for our criminal courts is vital for public confidence in the justice system. I recognise that the prolonged absence of timely and accurate data is an unsatisfactory position. This work is a departmental priority and, is underway to deliver an updated data series (including those missing quarters) as soon as possible when we are confident it meets the required level of accuracy. The Government looks forward to updating the House on the action we are taking soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander grouped question UIN 5949 5950 5951 5952 5953 5954 question first answered 14/10/2024 09:15:35 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1730197

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Upper Tribunal: Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her planned timetable is for (a) completing the migration of the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber to new case management systems and (b) publishing complete datasets for that tribunal’s workload.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith and Chiswick
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	5956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>A project to deploy a new case management system to multiple jurisdictions including all four chambers of the Upper Tribunal, including the Immigration and Asylum Chamber (UTIAC) was completed in May 2022.</p><p>The planned timetable for publishing datasets based on the UTIAC work types is as follows:</p><p>Judicial Review – data relating to judicial review is currently published on a quarterly basis.</p><p>Appeals – in order to publish data relating to appeals (challenging decisions of the First-tier Tribunal), further substantial technical work is required to pull the raw data from the new case management system into our secure and robust data platform and transform it into meaningful jurisdiction specific information for publication. This work is planned for 2025.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 14/10/2024 16:47:25 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1730198

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Courts: Statistics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her planned timetable is for publishing family court data series that are paused due to the roll out of Core Case Data.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith and Chiswick
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	5957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>The work required to amalgamate data on family public law cases across the legacy system and the reform system Core Case Data before publication has now been completed. Most of the family court statistics have been reinstated. However, selected data series remain paused, pending further work to engineer and validate the data. We are working at pace to process the data required for these data series and will publish these as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 14/10/2024 16:50:22 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter