Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to publish findings from the pre-sentence report pilot.
The PSR Pilot was launched in March 2021 and was rolled out across 15 magistrates’ courts in England and Wales. The pilot was recently extended until March 2023. This is to reflect the disruption and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the operation of courts, as well as the unification of the Probation Service. We intend to publish the initial findings from the process evaluation of the PSR Pilot in 2023.