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Crown Court: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of when the backlog in Crown Court cases will begin to fall.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
26 Feb 2025
Answer
26 Feb 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of when the backlog in Crown Court cases will begin to fall.

  2. 26 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    This Government inherited a record and rising Crown Court backlog. The outstanding caseload remains one of the biggest challenges facing the criminal justice system and stood at 73,105 as of 30 September 2024. Even if we were to sit at maximum capacity in...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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