Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2023 to Question 188262 on Criminal Proceedings: Databases, what recent estimate he has made of when the external data catalogue will be published.

We plan to complete the first phase of the data catalogue project by the end of September 2023. The objectives of this phase are to identify tooling that meets our requirements, including for an external view of the catalogue, and to pilot with an initial HMCTS service. If this completes successfully, we will plan roll-out to include more datasets and internal users in the first instance, with external to follow.