Courts: Coronavirus

(asked on 24th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November to Question 114858 on Courts: Coronavirus, how many cases of covid-19 have been confirmed among the (a) staff, (b) judiciary and (c) users of each court since 12 November.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 30th November 2020

Since 18 August we have recorded all confirmed positive incidents of COVID-19 affecting HMCTS buildings centrally. We take swift and robust action for each suspected or positive case. There should be no assumption that a positive case indicates that there has transmission within a court or tribunal building. 98% of our 341 buildings are open and operational. HMCTS employs around 19,300 staff and there are around 19,400 judicial office holders.

Since the 12 November to 24 November confirmed positive COVID-19 cases reported to HMCTS are as follows:

Across the courts:

A) HMCTS staff – 51

B) Judiciary – 7

C) Court users – 29

The following table provides a more detailed breakdown of the specific HMCTS locations and numbers.

Table to show breakdown of positive COVID-19 cases identified at court locations for staff, judiciary, and court users since 12 November to 24 November

Court location

Staff

Judiciary

Court users

Barkingside Magistrates’ Court

0

1

0

Barrow Law Courts

0

0

1

Birmingham Crown Court

0

0

1

Bradford Combined

2

0

0

Brighton Magistrates’ Court

0

0

1

Bury St Edmunds - South East & London Divorce

1

0

0

Coventry Magistrates’ Court

0

1

0

Derby Combined

0

0

1

Ealing Magistrates Court

0

0

1

Gateshead Law Courts

2

0

0

Gloucester Crown Court

0

0

1

Grimsby Magistrates Court

1

0

0

Hastings Law Courts

1

0

0

High Wycombe Magistrates

1

0

0

Highbury Corner Magistrates’

0

0

2

Hull Combined Court Centre

0

1

0

Leeds, Ailsa House

1

0

0

Leicester CFT

1

0

0

Leicester Crown Court

2

0

0

Leicester Magistrates’ Court

1

0

0

Lincoln County Court

0

0

2

Liverpool - Queen Elizabeth 2 Law Courts

0

0

1

Llanelli Law Courts

1

1

0

London Central Criminal Court

0

0

1

London Central Family Court

2

0

0

Loughborough Magistrates’ Court

6

0

0

Luton Crown Court

0

0

1

Maidstone Combined Court

0

0

1

Manchester Crown Square

1

0

0

Medway County Court

1

0

0

Midlands Finance Unit Rugeley

3

0

0

Milton Keynes CFC

1

0

0

North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court

0

0

1

Norwich Magistrates’ Court

1

0

0

Nottingham County Court

0

0

1

Nottingham Crown Court

1

0

0

Peterborough Magistrates’ Court

0

0

1

Plymouth Combined Court

1

0

0

Port Talbot Justice Centre

1

0

0

Preston Combined Court

0

1

0

Preston Magistrates Court

0

0

1

RCJ

4

0

0

Salford CCMC

2

0

0

Scarborough Justice Centre

1

0

0

Sheffield Magistrates’ Court

0

1

0

South Tyneside Law Courts

0

0

2

Southend Magistrates’ Court

1

0

0

Staines Combined Court

2

0

0

Stoke CTSC Bennett House

3

0

0

Tameside Magistrates' Court

1

1

0

Uxbridge County Court

2

0

0

Warwickshire Justice Centre

1

0

0

Wigan and Leigh Courthouse

1

0

0

Wolverhampton Combined Court

0

0

7

Wood Green Crown Court

0

0

2

Wrexham Magistrates’ Court

1

0

0

TOTALS

51

7

29

All data is internal and not subject to the same level of checks as official published statistics. Although care has been taken when processing and analysing this, the details may be subject to revisions inherent in any large-scale manual system.

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