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	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Transform Justice blog entitled The secret room – who is listening to what in digital courts?, published on 11 April 2019, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of reports in that blog that a secret video control room was placed in a court in Medway; and what information his Department hold on whether that is widespread practice in other courts.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	251946
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>There is no secret video control room at Medway Magistrates’ Court.</p><p>There is a control room, not accessible to the public, where the coordination of participants and the connection and disconnection of video hearings to the courtroom takes place. This function is carried out by a HMCTS video court administrator. There are no other courts operating a control room across the criminal court estate.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/05/2019 12:13:37 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1565148

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) Magistrate Court and (b) Crown Court sitting days lost due to the Common Platform since its introduction.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	119234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>We do not record data on sitting days lost due to Common Platform performance. Sitting days are the number of days that judges or magistrates sit in court each year to hear cases brought before them. The listing of cases into allocated sitting days is a matter for the independent judiciary.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 17/01/2023 15:32:39 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1647847

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has had recent discussions with criminal barristers on the adequacy of the Common Platform.
	tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
	tabling member printed	Sir Robert Neill
	uin	191052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>HMCTS is accountable to, and regularly engages with, the Lord Chancellor on Common Platform. The Lord Chancellor sees court reform as a top departmental priority, and is fully committed to engaging with the legal profession on all the department’s priorities, including Common Platform. He is looking forward to meeting with representatives of the Criminal Bar Association in mid-July to discuss the priorities that they wish to engage on.</p><p>Throughout the rollout of Common Platform, we have engaged extensively with the defence community on the wider reform landscape and the design of Common Platform functionality. We have done this through a range of formal engagement groups with representatives from the defence community. The feedback we have received has been extremely valuable and provided a wealth of information that has been fed into our designs. Defence practitioner input is particularly important for informing the next phase of implementation which will bring significant changes and improved functionality for the judiciary, counsel, and other parties in the Crown Court.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 04/07/2023 14:46:41 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

1647848

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has invited (a) barristers and (b) solicitors to (i) access test cases and (ii) test other aspects of the Common Platform system.
	tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
	tabling member printed	Sir Robert Neill
	uin	191053
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>Whenever new functionality is developed for Common Platform, it goes through several stages of testing. For significant changes, we ensure the functionality is tested by the main groups of users who are most impacted by the system, and rigorously test it in early adopter courts to ensure it is suitable for use in a live court environment.</p><p>A handful of solicitors were invited to test the new functionality for the digitalisation of the Pre-Trial Preparation and Better Case Management forms late last year. The feedback provided gave valuable insight into the usability of the forms by practitioners.</p><p>Now that we are planning the next phase of implementation, where barristers are a critical user group, we are enhancing their role in our implementation approach. In addition to the existing opportunities they have to provide their input on design, we plan on providing opportunities for barristers to join sessions to test the system and we will be issuing further communications to raise awareness on that approach soon.</p><p>We will be undertaking user acceptance testing with defence advocates, including barristers, as we did in November 2022 before moving the Preparation for Effective Trials and Better Case Management forms to a digital format.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 04/07/2023 16:50:05 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

1647850

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the Common Platform for enabling barristers to transfer cases without a transfer being undertaken by a defence solicitor.
	tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
	tabling member printed	Sir Robert Neill
	uin	191054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>Phase 1 of Common Platform was not designed for the use of Crown Court judges or barristers. It replaces the systems used by HMCTS staff in the Crown and magistrates’ courts and is used by magistrates’ court users to view case materials.</p><p>Phase 2 of Common Platform will introduce new functionality that will enable Crown Court cases to be handled on Common Platform. Until then the Crown Court Digital Case System (DCS) continues to be the single document repository for Crown Court Cases. Barristers are expected to continue accessing the information they need from DCS and do not need to access Common Platform other than to check into a case when arriving at the hearing.</p><p>Having worked with defence practitioners throughout the design stage of the programme, we were aware that once Crown Court cases are fully managed on Common Platform, there is a requirement for barristers to be able to give access to cases to other barristers, at short notice and at unsociable hours. This requirement was intended to be met when other Phase 2 functionality is introduced.</p><p>The absence of this flexibility in Phase 1 does mean that if a case changes hands at short notice, counsel attending the hearing may not be able to check into the case, and a process has been put in place for court staff to complete the check-in on their behalf in this scenario.</p><p>In early April 2023 we learned that, despite all the above, the inability to reassign cases was causing issues for barristers.</p><p>Now that we are aware of the issue, the functionality to enable greater flexibility has been reprioritised and will be delivered sooner than planned. The development teams are analysing this change now and we should soon be able to provide a time estimate for its release.</p><p>We are grateful that this issue was raised with us, and welcome further feedback to improve the Common Platform for all our users.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 04/07/2023 14:48:33 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

1584612

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Common Platform (a) has already cost, and (b) is expected to cost.
	tabling member constituency	Jarrow
	tabling member printed	Kate Osborne
	uin	140378
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer given on 5 September 2022 to Question 42140: <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-07-21/42140" target="_blank">Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 20/02/2023 13:44:47 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4783 label Biography information for Kate Osborne

1584616

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on which date ministers last met with trade unions to discuss the Common Platform.
	tabling member constituency	Jarrow
	tabling member printed	Kate Osborne
	uin	140380
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>Ministers have met with staff to discuss Common Platform.</p><p>I have also met with a range of staff users in both Magistrates and Crown Courts in Manchester and Birmingham.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 20/02/2023 13:46:08 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4783 label Biography information for Kate Osborne

1150086

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated completion date is for the Criminal Justice System Common Platform programme.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The timelines regarding the Crime Programme can be found within the regularly published HMCTS Reform Update <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hmcts-reform-programme-reform-update" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hmcts-reform-programme-reform-update</a> which confirms a programme end date of March 2021.</p><p>As with all programmes, timelines are under continuous review.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 21/10/2019 14:51:51 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1150087

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated total cost is of the Criminal Justice System Common Platform programme.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The cost as set out in the 2018 HMT approved Business Case for the development of the CJS Common Platform is £237m.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 21/10/2019 14:48:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett