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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>While we do not have set targets, 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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