Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hearings were held in Bridgend Law Courts between 2010 and 2015.

Data for hearings at Bridgend Law Courts are presented in Table 1 below for each calendar year for each jurisdiction where data is available centrally. Hearings in different jurisdictions will take different lengths of time and cannot easily be compared. Complete data for 2015 is not yet available.

Notes

1 Magistrates’ data are only available from 2009, when the case management system was rolled out. Magistrates data counts cases with a hearing, a defendant may have more than one case heard in a single hearing and therefore each case will be counted

2 Magistrates Civil cases can either be a single case or on occasions can be bulk listed and in such circumstances will only attract a single count when multiple claims will have been dealt with in the hearing

3 The Family case management system has been in use in Bridgend since 2010. Data is not available centrally prior to this. Data for January to March 2015 is subject to change as data are revised.

4 Bridgend sat SSCS cases as a satellite of Cardiff between April 2011 and May 2014.