Question follow-through · 10053
Courts: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to improve the condition of (a) court buildings and (b) other physical infrastructure in the courts system.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to improve the condition of (a) court buildings and (b) other physical infrastructure in the courts system.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2024
Answer published
It is important that the infrastructure of our courts does not prevent hearings from taking place.HMCTS has a facilities management contract with Equans for undertaking routine court maintenance which has delivered over 30,000 routine maintenance jobs acr...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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