The Ministry of Justice is to undertake an overarching evaluation of the Reform programme to understand the effect of reform on access to justice. This will include surveys of court users across criminal, civil, family, and tribunal jurisdictions. An interim report is expected in Summer 2021.<\/p>
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Information on the overarching evaluation was published in the Ministry of Justice response to the Public Accounts Committee's fourth recommendation in its report Transforming courts and tribunals, in February 2019: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/moj-response-to-public-accounts-committee-transforming-courts-and-tribunals<\/a><\/p> <\/p> In July 2019, the Ministry published further information on the progress of the evaluation, including details of the advisory panel that has been established for the evaluation: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/response-to-public-accounts-committee-transforming-courts-and-tribunals<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 4 of the document entitled HM Courts & Tribunals Service Citizen User Experience Research, published in June 2018, which states that some groups were excluded: immigration tribunals, criminal defendants, jurors, high court cases and restraining order or Domestic Violence Protection Order cases, whether he will take steps to survey the user experience of those groups to (a) understand their experience as they engage with the court system and (b) to help ensure equal access to justice.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1140522/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The following academic research for evaluation of reform is publicly available:<\/p> <\/p> Research on the Citizen User Experience: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmcts-citizen-user-experience-research<\/a><\/p> <\/p> London School of Economics evaluation of video hearings in the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber):<\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/implementing-video-hearings-party-to-state-a-process-evaluation<\/a><\/p> <\/p> We expect to publish the research on the Professional User Experience and on Social Security and Child Support appellants\u2019 digital capability within the next six months.<\/p> <\/p> Flexible Operating Hours is an ongoing project and we anticipate that research will be published upon completion. On 19th<\/sup> July, the evaluation plan for the HMCTS flexible operating hours pilot was published and is available here:<\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flexible-operating-hours-evaluation-plan-and-summary<\/a><\/p> <\/p> The Government has committed to undertake an overarching evaluation of the courts and tribunals modernisation programme. This will take into account existing data and management information, and further qualitative and quantitative research which we are planning to commission for the evaluation. We are planning to begin commissioning for this research shortly. We are aiming to publish the interim report of our evaluation during the course of the reform programme in 2021, and we will publish a final evaluation report following completion of the programme.<\/p>"}
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