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Offenders: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consideration her Department has given to the potential merits of increasing the use of (a) diversion schemes based on (i) deferred prosecution agreements and (ii) referral orders and (b) other diversion sch

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
9 Sept 2025
Answer
9 Sept 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consideration her Department has given to the potential merits of increasing the use of (a) diversion schemes based on (i) deferred prosecution agreements and (ii) referral orders and (b) other diversion sch

  2. 9 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    This Government inherited a record and rising courts backlog. As of December 2024, the Crown Court outstanding caseload was over 74,000. As of March 2025, the caseload continued to increase, with a new series peak of 76,957. It is clear that fundamental r...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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