Question follow-through · 59985
Crown Court: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce the backlog of crown court cases in the West Midlands.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce the backlog of crown court cases in the West Midlands.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2025
Answer published
This Government inherited a record and rising courts backlog. For this financial year (2025/26), this Government is funding a record allocation of Crown Court sitting days to deliver swifter justice for victims – 110,000 sitting days this year, 4,000 high...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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