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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2021-09-21more like thismore than 2021-09-21
answering body
Ministry of Justice more like this
answering dept id 54 more like this
answering dept short name Justice more like this
answering dept sort name Justice more like this
hansard heading Courts: Coronavirus remove filter
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of resources available to effectively tackle court backlogs in the recovery from the covid-19 outbreak. more like this
tabling member constituency Wolverhampton South West more like this
tabling member printed
Stuart Anderson more like this
uin 52600 more like this
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answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2021-09-29more like thismore than 2021-09-29
answer text <p>We have taken decisive action to ensure the courts have sufficient resources to tackle our outstanding caseloads in the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><p>We spent over a quarter of a billion pounds on recovery last financial year, making court buildings safe, rolling out new technology for remote hearings and recruiting an additional 1,600 HMCTS staff. We will run each Crown Court site to its fullest, with no limit on sitting days this financial year, so more cases can be heard and waiting times can come down. Following the lifting of social distancing restrictions, we are in the process of fully reopening our existing physical estate. We have also extended 32 of our Nightingale courtrooms until March 2022 to maximise our sitting capacity this year.</p> more like this
answering member constituency South Suffolk more like this
answering member printed James Cartlidge more like this
question first answered
less than 2021-09-29T11:37:41.137Zmore like thismore than 2021-09-29T11:37:41.137Z
answering member
4519
label Biography information for James Cartlidge more like this
tabling member
4742
label Biography information for Stuart Anderson more like this