Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of the number of adjournments related to child sexual abuse cases in 2020.

HMCTS do not hold data relating to child sexual abuse adjournments. Cases with serious safeguarding implications continue to be prioritised for listing by the independent judiciary.

Adjournments are not specifically covered in the Criminal Court Statistics. However, data on vacated trials in the first and second quarters of 2020 have been published as part of the National Statistics on criminal courts in June and September 2020 respectively.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2020--2