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1420669

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
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 support victims of domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Dr James Davies
uin	905511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>We are building on the landmark Domestic Abuse Act to improve victims services, to ensure that victims can secure justice in our courts and to pursue perpetrators ruthlessly.</p><p>Victim support funding is rising to £185 million by 2024/25, including increasing the number of Independent Sexual and Domestic Abuse Advisors to more than 1000 and we are extending the time limit for prosecuting domestic abuse-related common assaults to help victims secure justice.</p><p>The government’s focus on this most hidden and pernicious of crimes will continue with the publication of our Domestic Abuse Strategy in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2022 17:55:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4476 label Biography information for Dr James Davies

1420670

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
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 support victims of domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes North
tabling member printed	Ben Everitt
uin	905512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>We are building on the landmark Domestic Abuse Act to improve victims services, to ensure that victims can secure justice in our courts and to pursue perpetrators ruthlessly.</p><p>Victim support funding is rising to £185 million by 2024/25, including increasing the number of Independent Sexual and Domestic Abuse Advisors to more than 1000 and we are extending the time limit for prosecuting domestic abuse-related common assaults to help victims secure justice.</p><p>The government’s focus on this most hidden and pernicious of crimes will continue with the publication of our Domestic Abuse Strategy in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2022 17:55:54 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4836 label Biography information for Ben Everitt

1420671

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress he has made on reducing rates of reoffending.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	905513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>This Government is committed to reducing crime and protecting the public by tackling reoffending. Over the last 10 years, there has been a broad decline in overall reoffending rates. We will invest £200 million a year by 2024-25 to further reduce reoffending and cut crime.</p><p>We will improve prison leaver’s access to accommodation by providing temporary accommodation for prison leavers through our new Community Accommodation Service.</p><p>Our Prisoner Education Service will focus on improving numeracy, literacy and the qualifications that increase prisoners’ prospects of finding work on their release. There are now 23 Employment Hubs, ‘job-centres in a prison’, that are directly supporting prisoners into jobs on release.</p><p>We will also introduce new personalised Resettlement Passports, bringing together the key information and services that an individual needs to resettle into society.</p><p>Our reforms to the Probation Service, supported by additional annual funding of £155 million, will help reduce reoffending through robust supervision, tougher community sentences, improved local partnership working and delivery of rehabilitative services.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/02/2022 16:22:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

1420672

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Victim Support Schemes
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 support victims within the criminal justice system.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
uin	905514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>The recently completed Victims’ Bill consultation is a critical step towards introducing a Victims’ Law – part of our plan for doing better by victims, from the moment a crime is committed through to cases being heard in court.</p><p>In particular, we have consulted on requirements for prosecutors to meet with victims pre-charge and pre-trial, the use of community impact statements, improving accountability of criminal justice agencies, increasing the Victim Surcharge and wider support for victims.</p><p>Victim support services are crucial to helping victims remain engaged in the criminal justice process. The Department has provided £150.5 million to victim support services this financial year, with funding increasing to £185 million by 2024/25. Hence, this Government has trebled the amount of funding for victims compared to pre-2010 levels.</p><p>This will enable us to increase the number of Independent Sexual Violence Advisors (ISVAs) and Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVAs) we fund to over 1,000, alongside other key services including a 24/7 support service for victims of sexual violence.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/02/2022 16:49:34 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

1420673

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support his Department is providing to legal aid firms affected by financial losses following court backlogs during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	905515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government introduced several measures to support legal aid firms. These included introducing hardship measures, specifically reducing the threshold for work done in Crown Court cases from £5000 to £450; halting the pursuit of debts to the Legal Aid Agency; and encouraging firms to access financial support via the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme and the Bounce Back Loan Scheme.</p><p>The Legal Aid Agency has already made some changes permanent which originated during the COVID-19 outbreak and continues to keep under review others which are still in place.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 08/02/2022 17:21:01 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1420674

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to support victims of domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	905516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>We are building on the landmark Domestic Abuse Act to improve victims services, to ensure that victims can secure justice in our courts and to pursue perpetrators ruthlessly.</p><p>Victim support funding is rising to £185 million by 2024/25, including increasing the number of Independent Sexual and Domestic Abuse Advisors to more than 1000 and we are extending the time limit for prosecuting domestic abuse-related common assaults to help victims secure justice.</p><p>The government’s focus on this most hidden and pernicious of crimes will continue with the publication of our Domestic Abuse Strategy in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2022 17:56:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1420675

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress he has made on supporting offenders into employment following their release from prison.
tabling member constituency	Loughborough
tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
uin	905519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>We are delivering on our commitments in the recent Prisons Strategy White Paper to improve employment outcomes for prison leavers:</p><ol><li>Creating a presumption in favour of enabling vetted and appropriate inmates, and offenders released on licence, to take up work opportunities;</li><li>Introducing new Resettlement Passports, bringing together all of the essentials that prison leavers need to lead crime-free lives on release into one place, such as ID that demonstrates a prisoner’s right to work and a bank account;</li><li>Putting a dedicated Employment Advisor in every resettlement prison;</li><li>Developing a digital candidate matching system to match prisoners to roles on release;</li><li>Establishing Employment Hubs, a ‘job-centre in a prison’ where prisoners can get support and find opportunities;</li><li>Establishing Employment Boards, which link prisons with local business networks to provide advice and challenge so that prisons deliver the skills that employers need.</li></ol> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/02/2022 16:23:15 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt

1420676

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Crimes of Violence
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 ensure justice sector staff are protected from abuse and assaults at work.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	905520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>The Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 doubled the maximum penalty for those who assault emergency workers, including prison officers and custody officers, from 6 to 12 months’ imprisonment for common assault or battery, with higher maximum penalties for serious offences.</p><p>Through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, we are again doubling the maximum penalty for the assault of an emergency worker, from 12 months’ to two years’ imprisonment.</p><p>The bill will also create a new statutory aggravating factor for offences committed against those staff providing a public service, performing a public duty or providing a service to the public.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 08/02/2022 17:22:17 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1420083

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to increase judicial capacity, to meet the Government’s policy of unlimited judicial sitting days.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	119600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2022 answer text <p>The Lord Chancellor agreed with the Lord Chief Justice that there should be no limit on sitting days in the Crown Court in 2021/22. Collectively, MoJ and the judiciary have taken and are taking action to increase judicial capacity across all jurisdictions:</p><ul><li>continuing with a high volume of judicial recruitment, with a recruitment programme of about 1000 judges in 2021/22 and 1100 in 2022/23;</li><li>aiming to recruit 4,000 new magistrates over the next few years. MoJ has invested over £1million to realise this ambition with a new, streamlined recruitment process which was launched in January 2022;</li><li>encouraging fee paid judges to sit where they are able and needed, in line with terms of appointment, with a particular focus on Recorders;</li><li>all Recorders will now be able to sit up to 80 days without a separate business justification being agreed and all are being contacted to advise them of this;</li><li>where there is a business justification, we have raised the maximum number of days a Recorder or DDJ can sit to 180;</li><li>legislating to raise the statutory mandatory retirement age (MRA) to 75 for judicial office holders, which could retain an extra 400 judges and 2000 magistrates per year, compared to an MRA of 70;</li><li>providing for the reinstatement of retired magistrates below the new MRA where there is a business need;</li><li>legislating so that the ability to sit in retirement is extended to fee-paid judges, which provides additional flexibility; and</li><li>before the proposed new MRA takes effect, where there is a business need, approving the extension of judges’ appointments past their compulsory retirement date.</li></ul> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 10/02/2022 17:22:40 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1420090

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts and Tribunals: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list the courts and tribunals that his Department has closed in England and Wales since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	119601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2022 answer text <p>The table below provides a list of all courts and tribunals which have closed since 2010. The table does not include integrations, which involve the movement of or merging of services into another existing HMCTS location in the same local area.</p><p>The decision to close any court is not taken lightly, it only happens following full public consultation and only when effective access to justice can be maintained. Courts that have closed were either underused, dilapidated or too close to one another.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Court or Tribunal closed since 2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdare County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdare Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Abergavenny Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Abertillery Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accrington County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accrington Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acton Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alnwick Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alton Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amersham Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ammanford Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Andover Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ashford County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ashford Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aylesbury Magistrates' and County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Balham Youth Court Magistrates'</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Banbury Magistrates’ and County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barking &amp; Dagenham Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnstaple Magistrates' and County Court (Crown part only)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barry Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Basildon Acorn House - Basildon Tribunal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Batley &amp; Dewsbury Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bicester Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bingley (Keighley) Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham Magistrates' Youth Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bishop Auckland County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bishop Auckland Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackfriars Crown Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blandford Forum Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blaydon Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton Combined Court Centre (County Part Only)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bournemouth Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bow County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bracknell Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brecon Law Courts Magistrates’</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brentford Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bridgend Law Courts Magistrates'</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bridgwater Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burton Upon Trent County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burton upon Trent Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury St Edmunds Crown &amp; Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Buxton Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Caerphilly Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camborne Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cardigan Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carmarthen Law Courts (The Guildhall) Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheltenham County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheltenham Rivershill House - Cheltenham Tribunal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chepstow County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chepstow Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chichester Combined Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chichester Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chippenham Magistrates' &amp; Civil Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chorley County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chorley Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cirencester Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coalville Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Colchester County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coleford Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consett County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consett Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Corby Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cromer Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dartford Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daventry Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denbigh Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dewsbury County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Didcot Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dolgellau Crown &amp; Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorchester Crown Court (Weymouth &amp; Dorchester Combined)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dover Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastbourne Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ely Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Epping Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Epsom County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Epsom Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Epsom Tribunal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Evesham County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fareham Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feltham Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fleetwood Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Flint Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Frome Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucester Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Goole County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Goole Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gosforth Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grantham County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grantham Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gravesend County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grays Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenwich Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Guisborough (East Langbaurgh) Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Halesowen Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Halifax County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Halifax Magistrates' Court (Calderdale)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith Magistrates' and County Court (County Court Only)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haringey Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harlow County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harlow Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrow Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hartlepool Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haywards Heath County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hemel Hempstead Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hinckley Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hitchin County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holyhead Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Honiton Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Houghton-Le-Spring Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Huntingdon County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ilford County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ilkeston Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Keighley County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kendal Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kettering County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kettering Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kidderminster County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>King's Lynn County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston-upon-Thames Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Knowsley Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Knutsford Crown Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewes Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liskeard Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llandovery Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llangefni Civil and Family Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llangefni Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llwynypia Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lowestoft County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lowestoft Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ludlow County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ludlow Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lyndhurst Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Macclesfield County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Macclesfield Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maidenhead Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Market Drayton Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Market Harborough Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Melton Mowbray County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Melton Mowbray Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mid-Sussex (Haywards Heath) Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Morpeth &amp; Berwick County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Neath and Port Talbot Civil and Family Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Neath Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newark County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newark Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newbury County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Liverpool Community Justice Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northallerton Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northwich County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northwich Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oldham County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oldham Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ormskirk Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oswestry County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oswestry Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Penrith County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Penrith Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Penzance County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Penzance Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pocock Street Tribunals Hearing Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pontefract County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pontefract Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pontypool County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pontypridd Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poole County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prestatyn Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pwllheli Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rawtenstall County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rawtenstall Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redditch County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redhill Magistrates' &amp; Reigate County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Retford Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rhyl County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmond upon Thames Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rochdale Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rotherham Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rugby County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rugby Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Runcorn (Halton) Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Runcorn County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rutland Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salford County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salford Magistrates' Court (FPC)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sandwell Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scunthorpe Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Selby Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shrewsbury County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shrewsbury Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sittingbourne Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Skegness County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Skegness Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Solihull Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southport (North Sefton) Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southport County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spalding Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Albans Crown &amp; County Court (County part only)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Helens Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stafford Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke on Trent Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stourbridge County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stratford Upon Avon County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stroud Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sudbury Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sutton Coldfield Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sutton Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swaffham Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tameside Magistrates' &amp; County Court (County part only)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tamworth County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tamworth Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thetford Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Torquay Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Totnes Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tottenham Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Towcester Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tower Bridge Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trafford Magistrates' Court &amp; Altrincham County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trowbridge County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tunbridge Wells County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tynedale (Hexham) Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wakefield &amp; Pontefract Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waltham Forest Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wantage Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warrington Combined Court (County Part Only)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Watford Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wellingborough County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Berkshire Magistrates' Court (Newbury)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Bromwich Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Weston Super Mare Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Whitehaven County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Whitehaven Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wimborne Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wisbech Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Witney Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woking Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woolwich County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woolwich Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Worksop County Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Worksop Magistrates' Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wrexham Rhyd Broughton - Wrexham Tribunal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yate Magistrates' Court (North Avon)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Between 1997 and 2009, 125 magistrates’ courts and 24 county courts were closed. In October 2009 the closure of one more county court was announced, and a consultation was published on the closure of 20 magistrates’ courts and one county court.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 10/02/2022 17:24:25 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
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