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Jeff Smith Excerpts
Thursday 20th May 2021

(3 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Ellis Portrait The Attorney General
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One of the things that we will be looking at is the cloud video platform. The CPSI report published recently recognised the flexibility and adaptability of the CPS in responding to the pandemic. The cloud video platform was enabling around 20,000 virtual hearings a week, and post pandemic I am sure we will be looking at that among many other things.

Jeff Smith Portrait Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington) (Lab) [V]
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If the Government are serious about tackling the backlog of court cases, will the Attorney General explain why his colleague in the Ministry of Justice has halved the amount spent annually on recorded sitting days in the past five years, from £19 million to £9.5 million?