Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases had to be rescheduled on the day of a hearing in that case as a result of insufficient availability of court space in each month of 2019.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases had to be rescheduled on the day of a hearing in that case due to insufficient availability of court space in each month of 2018.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases had to be rescheduled on the day of a hearing in that case due to insufficient availability of court space in each month of 2017.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether HM Courts and Tribunals Service conducts comparative assessments of the time from cases first being listed in the Crown court to first hearing dates for each court centre.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
At court house level, HM Courts and Tribunals Service conducts comparative assessments of the time from offence to charge, charge to first listing, first listing to completion. These are published national statistics and the latest data can be found within the Criminal Court Case Timeliness Tool at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2019
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of cases were heard in more than one Crown Court in 2019.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The information requested is not available due to disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what methodology HM Courts and Tribunals Service uses for comparing the length of time taken at each court between the first listing of a case and the first hearing; and if he will publish that data.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Data on time from first listing to completion is published in the Criminal Court Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics. This includes the Crown Court Case Timeliness Tool, which provides first listing to completion statistics for each Crown Court.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria his Department uses to assess whether the average time from first listing of a case to trial in a Crown court is (a) increasing and (b) decreasing; and whether the length of that period is assessed in each Crown court in England.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Data on time from first listing to completion is published in the Criminal Court Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics. This includes the Crown Court Case Timeliness Tool, which provides first listing to completion statistics for each Crown Court.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was between the first appearance of a case in the Crown Court to the commencement of the trial in (a) Southwark Crown Court, (b) Lancaster Crown Court and (c) Brighton Crown Court in 2019.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The information requested is not available due to disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of listed cases are listed as floaters each month.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Listing is a judicial matter and approaches vary from court to court. There is not a comprehensive data set available that would provide an answer to this question.
Asked by: Yasmin Qureshi (Labour - Bolton South East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were listed in each court in England in each month in 2019.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The number of cases listed in each court in England in each month in 2019 is provided in the attached tables at annex A.
Note:
The attached data are broken down by court type.
The data contained within these tables are Management Information extracted from live case management systems. They can, therefore, change over time, and are not subject to the same level of checks as those applied to official statistics.
The data contained within these tables count each hearing. Some cases will, therefore, appear in these figures more than once.
Each dataset includes its own set of caveats and exclusions.
The timeframe of these data is in line with published MI data (January-19 to Sept-19)