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HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for tribunal hearings.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 4 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 9 Sept 2024
Answer: 12 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for tribunal hearings.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2024
Answer published
We are working to reduce the outstanding caseload in the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal including the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal. Reducing outstanding caseloads is the key measure to bringing down the waiting times for ...

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