Question follow-through · 11138
Administration of Justice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her planned timetable is to respond to her Department’s consultation entitled Open Justice: the way forward which closed on 7 September 2023.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 1 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her planned timetable is to respond to her Department’s consultation entitled Open Justice: the way forward which closed on 7 September 2023.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice ran a Call for Evidence from 11 May to 7 September 2023 under the previous Government. It was the first system-wide public assessment on open justice and transparency in over ten years. The consultation received a wide volume of re...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Courts
11 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to tackle backlogs in the courts.