Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mike Freer and Navendu Mishra

Tuesday 10th January 2023 Commons Chamber

[Navendu Mishra (Stockport) (Lab)]

21. What recent estimate he has made of the size of the backlog of criminal court cases in Stockport constituency.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Mike Freer)]

The outstanding case load in the Crown court in Newcastle upon Tyne was 1,598 at the end of June 2022. In Birmingham, the outstanding case load in the Crown court was 1,748 and in Manchester, the outstanding case loads in the Crown courts were 1,271 and 1,259 at the end of June 2022. As I have said in previous answers, we are taking action across the criminal justice system to bring down the backlogs and improve waiting times for those who use our courts.