Question follow-through · 6653
Criminal Proceedings: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many criminal trials were ineffective due to overlisting in each of the past five years.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2026 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many criminal trials were ineffective due to overlisting in each of the past five years.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on trial effectiveness in the Criminal Court Statistics release in the ‘Trial effectiveness at the criminal courts tool’. This tool contains data on both the magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court and covers the per...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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