Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Crown court trials have been adjourned due to no judge being available in each of the last five years.

Data is published in Court Statistics Quarterly showing the number of ineffective trials for a variety of agreed reasons, including “Judge / magistrate availability due to illness etc.”

Court Statistics Quarterly can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/court-statistics-quarterly