Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the median length of court waiting times in (a) Crown Courts and (b) Magistrate Courts since 2010.
The Ministry of Justice has published quarterly average hearing time data in England & Wales from Q1 2014 up to Q3 2022 in the ‘Crown Court average waiting and hearing time tool’, available at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1129919/cc_waiting_hearing_tool.xlsx.