Question follow-through · 29435
Courts: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Q3 of the oral evidence given by the Lady Chief Justice of England to the Justice Select Committee on 26 November 2024, HC 421, what estimate she has made of the total cost of sitting the extra
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Q3 of the oral evidence given by the Lady Chief Justice of England to the Justice Select Committee on 26 November 2024, HC 421, what estimate she has made of the total cost of sitting the extra
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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18 Feb 2025
Answer published
113,000 sitting days are a theoretical maximum of judicial sitting days in the Crown Court. It is not clear whether other parts of the system – for example the availability of counsel - could sustain that level of sitting, and therefore it is not correct ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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