Courts: Opening Hours

(asked on 20th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to publish the independent evaluation of the flexible operating hours pilots.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 28th July 2020

The Flexible Operating Hours pilots took place at Manchester Civil Justice Centre and the County Court at Brentford from September 2019 to March 2020. Upon the pilots concluding an update was published in May 2020: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/flexible-operating-hours-pilots-conclude-at-manchester-and-brentford

HMCTS has appointed a consortium of IFF Research and Frontier Economics to carry out an independent evaluation of the Flexible Operating Hours pilots. The evaluation is being conducted as set out in the evaluation plan, published July 2019: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flexible-operating-hours-evaluation-plan-and-summary. The evaluation report will be published following completion, in the autumn.

Options for extending working hours in the Crown and Magistrates’ courts are under consideration. There has been no pilot scheme to test the efficacy of extended working hours at Liverpool Crown Court.

Reticulating Splines