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date	05/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Law Reporting: Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using AI to produce trial transcripts.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	7747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The government is constantly assessing how to improve the efficiency within the criminal justice system, including mechanisms to accelerate trial transcripts.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the potential merits to using automated technology for trial transcriptions, including a potential reduction in the time it takes to produce a transcription and comparative value for money.</p><p> </p><p>Transcriptions must achieve very high levels of accuracy (99.5%) to ensure the justice system can operate fairly and effectively. However, even software with learning capability cannot yet reliably meet the accuracy requirements for the service without human intervention.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 15/01/2024 16:46:02 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1663327

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many outstanding cases there are at (a) Dudley, (b) Walsall and (c) Wolverhampton Magistrates Court.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	201181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>As of the end of June 2023 the number of outstanding cases at Dudley, Walsall and Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Courts are as follows:</p><p>a) Dudley Magistrates' Court: 1,017</p><p>b) Walsall Magistrates' Court: 779</p><p>c) Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court: 935</p><p>This is a further breakdown of published data that can be found in the criminal court statistics quarterly publication: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2023</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 23/10/2023 16:19:15 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1655776

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases are currently awaiting trial in magistrates courts.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	195635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The volume of outstanding ‘for trial’ cases at the magistrates’ courts is published as part of the National Statistics series ‘Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly’.</p><p><br>The latest published data is available to March 2023 and can be found in Table M1 which is accessible at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2023</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 11/09/2023 14:14:44 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1584416

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	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department was consulted before the recent advice was issued by the National Leadership Magistrate to magistrates regarding the granting of warrants to force fit prepayment meters.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	140017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>The statutory responsibility for issuing guidance to the judiciary is held by the Lord Chief Justice, the Senior President of Tribunals, and the Chief Coroner. To preserve the independence of the judiciary, they are not subject to direction or required to consult the government on the guidance they issue.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 09/02/2023 17:06:34 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar