Magistrates' Courts: Costs

(asked on 15th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much it costs on average to process each defendant in the magistrates court.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 20th July 2020

Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service currently does not calculate the average cost to process each defendant in the magistrates’ court.

Historically costs have been calculated around such metrics as the unit cost of a sitting day in the magistrates’ court. We are unable to calculate the average cost of processing a defendant in the magistrates’ court. Magistrates operate several sessions across a sitting day, which may be multi handed resulting in multiple defendants in one trial.

Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service has been working over the last 12 months to establish a variety of key financial metrics around the unit cost associated with various volumetrics.

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