Written Question
Friday 31st October 2025
Asked by:
James Cartlidge (Conservative - South Suffolk)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his department is taking to reduce delays in listing Crown Court cases involving serious domestic violence.
Answered by Sarah Sackman
- Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This Government is committed to improving victims’ experience of the justice system. We have funded a record-high allocation of 111,250 Crown Court sitting days to tackle the outstanding caseload, but we need to go further.
This is why we commissioned Sir Brian Leveson to propose bold and ambitious measures to deliver swifter justice for all victims, including for victims of domestic abuse, in his Independent Review of the Criminal Courts. The Government will respond to Part 1 of the report in due course. Work on Part 2 of the report, which is looking at how the criminal courts can operate as efficiently as possible, is also underway.
We know how important support services are in keeping victims engaged through the criminal justice process. The Ministry of Justice provides funding for victim and witness support services, including community-based domestic abuse services. To ensure these services can continue to be delivered, we have protected dedicated violence against women and girls' victims spending in the Department by maintaining 2024-25 funding levels for ringfenced domestic abuse support this year.
Written Question
Wednesday 12th February 2025
Asked by:
James Cartlidge (Conservative - South Suffolk)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what percentage of child custody disputes resulted in custody being awarded to the father in the latest year for which figures are available.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
His Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service does not centrally hold this data, this could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Written Question
Wednesday 11th September 2024
Asked by:
James Cartlidge (Conservative - South Suffolk)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to end the use of A to D ratings for the prisons system.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin
- Vice Chamberlain (HM Household) (Whip, House of Commons)
There are currently no plans to end the use of A to D ratings for the prisons system.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"We are investing £1.3 billion in transforming the justice system, including by introducing 21st-century technology and online services to modernise the courts. Digital reforms and simplified services are removing simple cases from court; cutting down on unnecessary paperwork; and helping some of the most vulnerable people, who are facing difficult …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Jul 2022
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"My hon. Friend asks an important question. I can confirm that on 16 June, the Government published their response to the “Considering the case for a Housing Court” call for evidence. Moreover, we are injecting more than £10 million a year into housing legal aid through our reforms to the …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Jul 2022
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"My hon. Friend raises an excellent point. We have to understand that when the pandemic hit, it presented the greatest challenge to collective access to justice for many decades. We cannot underestimate the way that technology in every jurisdiction, including Scotland and England and Wales, helped to ensure that we …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Jul 2022
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"I am grateful to the right hon. Lady. Further to the question of the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East (Karl Turner), I can confirm that I have met the chair of the Criminal Bar Association seven times since the publication of the independent review of criminal legal aid. …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Jul 2022
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"On the hon. Member’s first point, I have provided a written answer, which I will happily forward to him—I cannot remember if the question was from him—in which the existing position on funding was clarified. I am confident that we have put in a huge funding package across the justice …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Jul 2022
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"If the hon. Member writes to me, I will be more than happy to get my officials to look into that historical case...."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Jul 2022
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"I am grateful to my hon. Friend, as ever. What the Bellamy review said was that the increases should be delivered as soon as is practicable, and I am 100% certain that we are doing so. We had to consult, which is a requirement under public law principles, and we …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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