Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated average waiting time is for a case to be heard in (a) Magistrates' Courts and (b) Crown Courts.

Timeliness estimates for criminal court cases at the magistrates’ courts and Crown Court are published by the Ministry of Justice as part of the National Statistics series ‘Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly’ (latest to June 2020):

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics

- Data regarding the estimate average duration in days for magistrates’ courts cases through the criminal justice system can be found in Tables T3 (latest to December 2019);

- Data specifically relating to the waiting time in weeks for cases at the Crown Court (latest to June 2020) can be found in Tables C6 (by case type), C7 (by plea) and C8 (by remand status).