Question follow-through · 15263
Crown Court: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reclassification of certain offences to summary only on reducing the backlog in the Crown Courts.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 2 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reclassification of certain offences to summary only on reducing the backlog in the Crown Courts.
8 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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8 Jul 2026
Answer published
Part 1 of the Independent Review of the Criminal Courts considered the potential impact of reclassifying certain triable either way offences as summary only offences. Sir Brian Leveson’s analysis indicated that reclassification, together with restricting ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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