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1505084

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Sir Brian Leveson’s 2015 analysis of efficiency in criminal proceedings in England and Wales, if he will provide an update on the 56 recommendations in that report including which ones (a) are already implemented, (b) are in progress and (c) have been rejected.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	47526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government did not reject any of the recommendations and has implemented all those for which it has responsibility. A significant number were solely for the judiciary to implement. The recommended changes to Criminal Procedure Rules have all been completed.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 08/09/2022 16:52:08 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1488004

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 28 March 2022 to Question on Criminal Proceedings, when his Department plans to publish the research on defendants' engagement with the courts' process carried out by Revolving Doors on behalf of the Crime Reform Programme.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	33777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The research was published on HMCTS GOV.UK pages on Wednesday 13 July and is publicly available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service/about/research." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service/about/research.</a></p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 14/07/2022 16:48:31 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1471385

registered interest
date	17/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve the timeliness of processing criminal court cases.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	20235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting recovery and improving timeliness across the court system. Over the next three financial years, we are investing an extra £477 million for the Criminal Justice System to help improve waiting times for victims of crime and reduce the Crown Court backlog to an estimated 53,000 cases by March 2025.</p><p>The outstanding caseload in the Crown Court has reduced from around 60,700 cases in June 2021 to around 58,300 cases at the end of April 2022.</p><p>By the end of March 2023, we expect to get through 20% more Crown Court cases than we did pre-Covid (117,000 in 2022/23 compared to 97,000 in 2019/20).</p><p>We have expanded the capacity of the Crown Court so that we are able to hear more cases. We have extended 30 Nightingale courtrooms beyond the end of March 2022, including 22 Crown courtrooms. We have also opened two new ‘super courtrooms’ in Manchester and Loughborough, allowing up to an extra 250 cases a year to be heard across England and Wales.</p><p>We have once again removed the limit on sitting days in the Crown Court for this financial year to allow courts to work at full capacity, delivering swifter justice for victims and reducing the backlog of cases.</p><p>We are expanding our plans for judicial recruitment to secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/2023 and beyond.</p><p>We have published the Criminal Justice Delivery Data Dashboard which brings together local and national data from across the system on key priority areas to increase transparency, increase understanding of the justice system and support collaboration, particularly at a local level.</p><p>The dashboard measures progress against priority areas such as improving timeliness, increasing victim engagement and improving the quality of justice. For the adult rape dashboard, we also measure progress against the Rape Review ambition to more than double the number of adult rape cases reaching the court by the end of Parliament.</p><p>We are also implementing our Court Reform programme, which aims to make our court processes more efficient, meaning we can get through more cases in fewer sitting days.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 27/06/2022 16:38:56 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1454911

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to monitor older people’s experience of the criminal justice system.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Tom Hunt
uin	148397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text <p>We recognise that some older people can need additional support to access services.</p><p>Vulnerable victims, including some older victims, may face specific barriers to engaging victim support services or the criminal justice system. The Victims’ Code sets out a clear framework of 12 key overarching entitlements that set out what all victims can expect from all criminal justice agencies. Vulnerable victims are eligible for enhanced support under the Code, such as being offered a referral to a specialist support service, being contacted sooner after key decisions and having access to special measures when giving evidence.</p><p>We have also recently consulted on a Victims’ Bill, which will build on the foundations provided by the Victims’ Code to substantially improve victims’ experiences of the criminal justice system. The consultation committed to placing the Code in legislation, and explored options in relation to using victims’ experiences to drive improvements, and making clearer and sharper lines of accountability if victims do not receive their entitlements from criminal justice agencies.</p><p>We also recognise that older individuals in the criminal justice system can face barriers to accessing services which can rehabilitate them. We are developing an ageing prison population strategy currently, with the aim of ensuring older prisoners are rehabilitated successfully, reducing reoffending and better protecting the public.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/04/2022 08:50:47 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4771 label Biography information for Tom Hunt

1453337

registered interest
date	22/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to publish the research on defendants' engagement with the courts process carried out by Revolving Doors on behalf of the Crime Reform Programme.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	144900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>HMCTS plans to publish this research in Spring 2022.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 28/03/2022 15:28:09 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1452522

registered interest
date	18/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to his Answer of 10 February 2022 to Question 119604 on Criminal Proceedings, what the (a) mean and (b) median time was from offence to completion for cases in each (i) region of (A) England and (B) Wales and (ii) Local Justice Area in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	142458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2022 answer text <p>Further to the data provided as part of Question 119604, estimates of median and mean duration (in days) from receipt at Crown Court to completion by region is available at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2021%20(opens%20in%20a%20new%20tab)" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2021 (opens in a new tab)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The pandemic is the primary cause of the increased caseload in our courts. Prior to the pandemic, the outstanding caseload had reduced significantly, from over 55,000 in late 2014 to c.33,000 in late 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to supporting the recovery of the courts. We have extended 30 Nightingale courtrooms beyond the end of March 2022 and removed the limit on the number of days the Crown Court can sit in the 2021/22 financial year. To secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/23 and beyond we are expanding our plans for judicial recruitment.</p><p> </p><p>To provide additional capacity in the Crown Courts we are extending magistrates’ court sentencing powers from 6 to 12 months’ imprisonment for a single Triable Either Way offence to allow more cases to be heard in the magistrates’ court and help to drive down the backlog of cases over the coming years.</p><p> </p><p>These measures are already working, and as a result we expect to get through 20% more Crown Court cases this financial year than we did pre-Covid.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 01/04/2022 13:37:55 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1452122

registered interest
date	17/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were defended and what was the average number of days from an offence being committed on a (a) mean and (b) median basis for criminal cases being brought to completion in England and Wales by (i) court type, (ii) region, (iii) local criminal justice board area, (iv) local justice area and (v) Crown court in each quarter in each year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	141992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>Timeliness estimates for defendants dealt with at the magistrates’ courts and Crown Courts for various geographic breakdowns can be found in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of timeliness from offence to completion are taken from the point of offence committal through to the eventual completion of a case at court. These estimates are impacted by the reporting of non-recent offences, particularly in the case of mean estimates as offences reported several years after the incident can have a large impact on offence to completion measures. Caution should be taken when drawing conclusions from such granular breakdowns as requested as there is potential for marked variations based on small volumes and even single cases.</p><p> </p><p>The pandemic is the primary cause of the increased caseload in our courts. Prior to the pandemic, the outstanding caseload had reduced significantly, from over 55,000 in late 2014 to c.33,000 in late 2018. The Government is committed to supporting the recovery of the courts. We have extended 30 Nightingale courtrooms beyond the end of March 2022 and removed the limit on the number of days the Crown Court can sit in the 2021/22 financial year. To secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/23 and beyond we are expanding our plans for judicial recruitment.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 28/03/2022 16:48:25 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-03-22 141992 table FINAL.xlsx title 141992_table
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1451730

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the (a) mean and (b) median time from charge to completion for (i) Violence against the Person, (ii) robbery and (iii) theft offences in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	141199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>Timeliness estimates for defendants dealt with at the magistrates’ courts and Crown Courts for selected offences and geographic breakdowns can be found in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of timeliness from offence to completion are taken from the point of offence occurring to the eventual completion of a case at court. Reporting and recording of non-recent offences can have an adverse impact, especially for mean estimates and for sexual offences which can be reported months and years after the offence occurred. As such caution should be taken when drawing conclusions from granular breakdowns by offence and geographic location which may be based on very few and even single cases, and therefore show marked variations.</p><p> </p><p>The pandemic is the primary cause of the increased caseload in our courts. Prior to the pandemic, the outstanding caseload had reduced significantly, from over 55,000 in late 2014 to c.33,000 in late 2018. The Government is committed to supporting the recovery of the courts. We have extended 30 Nightingale courtrooms beyond the end of March 2022 and removed the limit on the number of days the Crown Court can sit in the 2021/22 financial year. To secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/23 and beyond we are expanding our plans for judicial recruitment.</p><p>To provide additional capacity in the Crown Courts we are extending magistrates’ court sentencing powers from 6 to 12 months’ imprisonment for a single Triable Either Way offence to allow more cases to be heard in the magistrates’ court and help to drive down the backlog of cases over the coming years.</p><p> </p><p>These measures are already working, and as a result we expect to get through 20% more Crown Court cases in the next financial year than we did pre-Covid. Following an increase in funding as part of the Ministry of Justice’s Spending Review settlement, we aim to reduce the number of outstanding cases in the Crown Court to 53,000 by March 2025.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 141200 141201 question first answered 28/03/2022 09:54:35 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-03-21 141199 141200 141201 table.xlsx title 141199_141200_141201_table
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1451731

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) mean and (b) median time was from offence to completion for cases of (i) criminal damage and arson, (ii) drug offences and (iii) possession of weapons in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	141200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>Timeliness estimates for defendants dealt with at the magistrates’ courts and Crown Courts for selected offences and geographic breakdowns can be found in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of timeliness from offence to completion are taken from the point of offence occurring to the eventual completion of a case at court. Reporting and recording of non-recent offences can have an adverse impact, especially for mean estimates and for sexual offences which can be reported months and years after the offence occurred. As such caution should be taken when drawing conclusions from granular breakdowns by offence and geographic location which may be based on very few and even single cases, and therefore show marked variations.</p><p> </p><p>The pandemic is the primary cause of the increased caseload in our courts. Prior to the pandemic, the outstanding caseload had reduced significantly, from over 55,000 in late 2014 to c.33,000 in late 2018. The Government is committed to supporting the recovery of the courts. We have extended 30 Nightingale courtrooms beyond the end of March 2022 and removed the limit on the number of days the Crown Court can sit in the 2021/22 financial year. To secure enough capacity to sit at the required levels in 2022/23 and beyond we are expanding our plans for judicial recruitment.</p><p>To provide additional capacity in the Crown Courts we are extending magistrates’ court sentencing powers from 6 to 12 months’ imprisonment for a single Triable Either Way offence to allow more cases to be heard in the magistrates’ court and help to drive down the backlog of cases over the coming years.</p><p> </p><p>These measures are already working, and as a result we expect to get through 20% more Crown Court cases in the next financial year than we did pre-Covid. Following an increase in funding as part of the Ministry of Justice’s Spending Review settlement, we aim to reduce the number of outstanding cases in the Crown Court to 53,000 by March 2025.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 141199 141201 question first answered 28/03/2022 09:54:35 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-03-21 141199 141200 141201 table.xlsx title 141199_141200_141201_table
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1436963

registered interest
date	01/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish figures on the number of criminal cases delayed by a lack of (a) defence and (b) prosecution counsel; and what the average length is of those delays.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	132267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Justice does not currently publish figures on the number of criminal cases delayed by a lack of (a) defence and (b) prosecution counsel. This specific data is not recorded. However, the Ministry of Justice publishes a range of statistics relating to the criminal justice system which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/statistics" target="_blank">Statistics at MOJ - Ministry of Justice - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 07/03/2022 17:52:10 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed