Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

Robert Courts Excerpts
Tuesday 5th December 2017

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tom Tugendhat Portrait Tom Tugendhat (Tonbridge and Malling) (Con)
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20. What steps he is taking to modernise the court system.

Robert Courts Portrait Robert Courts (Witney) (Con)
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24. What steps he is taking to modernise the court system.

David Lidington Portrait The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Mr David Lidington)
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With permission, Mr Speaker, I will answer Question 19 together with Questions 20 and 24. We are investing £1 billion in the modernisation of Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service. This summer, we launched the first online courts pilots, covering divorce, social security and civil money claims. In October, I visited the Manchester civil justice centre and saw some of that work first hand.