Question follow-through · 75969
Crown Court: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his planned timetable is for reducing the Crown Court backlog in absolute terms.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his planned timetable is for reducing the Crown Court backlog in absolute terms.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
This Government inherited a record and rising courts backlog. The last government promised to reduce the Crown Court backlog to 53,000 by March 2025. Instead, the backlog increased to 76,957 by March 2025. We have taken immediate action including funding ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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