Question follow-through · 31496
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of providing an additional 4,000 court sitting days in the 2024-25 financial year.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 7 Mar 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of providing an additional 4,000 court sitting days in the 2024-25 financial year.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
I am assuming the Rt. Honourable Gentleman is referring to the Crown Court with his question. The current Lord Chancellor increased the allocation of Crown Court sitting days for the current financial year by 2,500 additional days. This takes the total al...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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