Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2023 to Question 188261 on Crown Court: Standards, to provide this data by each Crown Court.

The a) mean and b) median length of time taken from (i) receipt at Crown Court to main hearing, (ii) main hearing to completion and (iii) receipt at Crown Court to completion for all offences can be found in the attached table. Timeliness data broken down by Crown Court are not available prior to 2014.

The latest published data is available to March 2023 and shows that timeliness estimates at the Crown Court continue to increase. This was a result of cases completing including trials impacted by the Criminal Bar Association action and in some cases, the suspension of jury trial during the pandemic.