Question follow-through · 26915
Crown Court: Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the (a) maximum amount of possible court time and (b) actual court time used for each Crown Court in each of the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the (a) maximum amount of possible court time and (b) actual court time used for each Crown Court in each of the last 12 months.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
The information requested can be found in the table attached which provides a monthly breakdown per Crown Court location showing the maximum available court time (verified session hours) and the actual court time (hours used). A ‘session’ represents the t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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