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<p>The department regularly publishes data on outstanding caseloads, which can be
found here for the criminal courts (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2021"
target="_blank">Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly: July to September 2021</a>) and
here for Civil and Family courts (Family Court Statistics Quarterly: July to September
2021 and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2021/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2021"
target="_blank">Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly: July to September 2021</a>).</p><p>We
have allocated over a quarter of a billion pounds on recovery in the last financial
year (20/21), making court buildings safe, rolling out new technology for remote hearings,
recruiting additional staff and opening Nightingale courtrooms, including London’s
fifth Nightingale courtroom at Monument in September. 32 Crown Court Nightingales
have been extended to the end of March 2022.</p><p>We have undertaken one of our most
ambitious programmes of judicial recruitment ever, so that we can hear as many cases
as possible. We have also made greater use of part-time judges by lifting the number
of days fee-paid judges can sit from 30 days to 80 for the second year in a row. The
Spending Review will provide additional funding to recover performance following the
pandemic.</p><p>We are now focused both on increasing capacity of the criminal courts
and using the capacity we have in high-demand areas to its maximum. The Department
continues to work with the judiciary to enable movement of additional judicial capacity
into the London Crown Courts from other Regions, and where appropriate and agreed
by all parties to move some Crown Court cases out of London into the South East and
South West Crown Courts.</p>
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