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<p>In the Crown Court we have seen the outstanding caseload stabilise at around 60,000
cases. The Spending Review provides an extra £477m funding for the criminal justice
system. We estimate this will improve waiting times and reduce the number of outstanding
cases to 53,000 by March 2025, ensuring that we do right by victims of crime.</p><p>
</p><p>We developed the Criminal Justice Action Plan at rapid pace to improve performance
of the Criminal Justice System as a whole. The Action Plan defines a set of actions
being carried out which intends to improve timeliness of cases throughout the CJS,
whilst reducing the outstanding caseload backlog.</p><p> </p><p>Judges continue to
work to prioritise cases involving vulnerable complainants and witnesses, to seek
to ensure that domestic abuse, serious sex cases and those with vulnerable witnesses
(including youth cases) are listed at the first available opportunity. Judges also
seek to list cases within their custody time limit, if applicable.</p><p> </p><p>Having
the right data across the Criminal Justice System is crucial to recovery. We are committed
to working with our partners across the justice system to ensure that it underpins
our approach. As part of that, we have committed to publish quarterly Criminal Justice
scorecards which will bring together data from across the system on key areas of performance
including on timeliness. This will allow us to identify problem areas and take a cross-system
response to dips in performance. We have a number of measures to monitor different
aspects of timeliness so that we can identify where in the process delays are occurring.
The first national scorecards were published in early December and can be viewed at
<a href="https://data.justice.gov.uk/cjs-scorecard-all-crime" target="_blank">https://data.justice.gov.uk/cjs-scorecard-all-crime</a>.</p>
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