Katie Lam MP: written questions

4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026 · year in progress

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Written questions

  • Crown Court: Criminal ProceedingsMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 17591More

    Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, why his Department's Crown Court Information data tool, which previously published receipts, disposals, guilty plea and trial effectiveness statistics broken down by individual Crown Court centre, has not been up

    Answer: The Ministry of Justice retired use of the Crown Court Information data tool in 2024 because we rationalised outputs to avoid duplicating published measures, and moved towards other software solutions. Much of the data previously available in the tool and...

    Answered 17 Jul 2026

    Original Parliament record
  • Crown Court: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 17590More

    Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court sitting days were sat in each individual Crown Court centre in England and Wales in each financial year from 2019–20 to 2024–25.

    Answer: Information on the number of court sitting days sat in each individual Crown Court Centre in England and Wales for each financial year from 2019-2020 to 2024-25 is provided in the attached table.This Government inherited a justice system in crisis. There ...

    Answered 17 Jul 2026

    Original Parliament record
  • Crown Court: TrialsMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 17589More

    Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the (a) average length of a trial and (b) average time taken for a case to reach completion following receipt at the Crown Court, broken down by individual Crown Court centre, for each financial year fro

    Answer: The Ministry of Justice regularly publishes data on the average amount of time a case spends being heard and the average time taken for a case to reach completion following receipt at the Crown Court, as part of the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly: Cr...

    Answered 17 Jul 2026

    Original Parliament record
  • Crown Court: Criminal ProceedingsMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 17588More

    Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of Crown Court defendants entered an early guilty plea, broken down by individual Crown Court centre, for each financial year from 2019–20 to 2024–25.

    Answer: Where appropriate, early guilty pleas (EGPs) can have benefits for both the administration of justice (by saving court time) and victims (by saving them from having to give potentially traumatic evidence). Data on early guilty pleas (EGPs) is published as...

    Answered 17 Jul 2026

    Original Parliament record
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Ministry of Justice4
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