Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the (a) name, (b) data type, (c) purpose and (d) other details of all data attributes recorded in the Common Platform for each criminal case; and whether recording of each data attribute is compulsory.

Common Platform receives and consumes a set standard of data (within an essential data framework) provided by prosecutors and parties to proceedings, which are set out in legislation. These dictate minimum standards of the data required to progress a case. The information is mandatory in the context of necessity for the case to function.

HMCTS are currently developing our approach to the HMCTS internal data catalogue, which would cover information of the type requested. We are also planning to create an external data catalogue that would help us share information of this type. Once completed, this project will determine what information will be published about the datasets we hold.