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Law Reporting: Magistrates' Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure timely and accurate access to magistrates court listings and registers for the public and media following the deletion of the Courtsdesk archive.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
10 Feb 2026
Target answer date
23 Feb 2026
Answer
27 Feb 2026 · 17 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure timely and accurate access to magistrates court listings and registers for the public and media following the deletion of the Courtsdesk archive.

  2. 23 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    The starting point is there has been no deletion of the Courtsdesk “archive”.Magistrates’ court listing and registers data continues to be available online, by email, in courts, and over the phone.Work is underway to improve the way in which Magistrates a...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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