Question follow-through · 69696
Prosecutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Single Justice Procedure notices are (a) served effectively and (b) received by the intended recipient.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 21 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 1 Sept 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Single Justice Procedure notices are (a) served effectively and (b) received by the intended recipient.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Sept 2025
Answer published
Prosecutors using the Single Justice Procedure (SJP) are responsible for the service of SJP notices and these are presently served by first class post or by email. The Ministry of Justice does not have supervisory functions over SJP prosecutors, and it is...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Prisoner Escorts: Contracts
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