Question follow-through · 45267
Immigration: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of immigration-related litigation on the capacity of the (a) family and (b) criminal courts.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of immigration-related litigation on the capacity of the (a) family and (b) criminal courts.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Lord Chancellor regularly reviews the discharge of her statutory obligations to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the system to support the carrying on of business in both the criminal courts and the family courts. This includes ongoing asses...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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