Question follow-through · 60655
Courts and Tribunals: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many courts and tribunals have been closed since 2015.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many courts and tribunals have been closed since 2015.
20 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jun 2025
Answer published
Since 2015, 90 courts and 4 tribunals have been permanently closed. All of these closures took place under the previous Government.The figures do not include integrations, where workload remained in the local area by transferring to another building in cl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Independent Public Advocate: Finance
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Succession: Cohabitation
24 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he is taking steps to modernise the Inheritance Act to reflect a) common law partners and b) common law partners whose marriage plans were underway before one of those partners passed away.
Cohabitation: Succession
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