Courts: Recorders

(asked on 1st July 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Yasmin Qureshi Portrait
Yasmin Qureshi
(Labour - Bolton South East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sitting days in courts in England were presided over by a recorder in each of the last 18 months.

Answered by
Paul Maynard Portrait
Paul Maynard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 9th July 2019

The table below shows the number of sitting days in courts in England that were presided over by a recorder in each of the last 18 months to December 2018. These figures cover sitting days by recorders in County, Family and Crown Courts.

Month

Recorder Sitting Days

Jul-17

2,645

Aug-17

2,886

Sep-17

3,158

Oct-17

2,774

Nov-17

2,576

Dec-17

1,901

Jan-18

2,755

Feb-18

2,437

Mar-18

2,462

Apr-18

1,763

May-18

1,967

Jun-18

2,153

Jul-18

2,138

Aug-18

2,059

Sep-18

1,982

Oct-18

1,963

Nov-18

1,727

Dec-18

1,051

We are only able to provide information to December 2018 as this aligns with the latest information on court sitting days which is published on Gov.uk and is available here. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2019. It is part of the Royal Courts of Justice Annual Tables (which contain at Table 5.2 a breakdown of sitting days by type of work and level of judge)

The data source for these figures are a number of operational systems and as such are liable to change and may not reflect previously published statistics.

Last year Crown Court trial waiting times were at their lowest since 2014, with this year’s allocation of sitting days reflecting this.

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