Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many minutes in total of Court of Appeal hearings have been televised since cameras were first allowed in court.

As of 8July 2014, the relevant media organisations inform us that 117 hearings have been recorded since legislation was passed on the 31 October 2013 to enable live television broadcasting from the Court of Appeal.

The BBC, ITN, Sky and the Press Association determine which cases should be filmed and it is for those individual media organisations to decide what should be broadcast, and when. No information about how many cases are broadcast, or how many minutes of coverage, is held by the Ministry of Justice.

Court broadcasting gives the public the opportunity to see and hear the decisions of judges in their own words and is a step towards achieving our aim of having an open and transparent justice system.