Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the data used to model the (a) court recovery plan and (b) plan for reducing the court backlog due to the covid-19 outbreak.

During the pandemic we have been publishing detailed management information used by HMCTS for understanding workload volumes and activity across the court and tribunal system. These key datasets are used to inform recovery modelling in courts and tribunals. The data breaks down weekly figures on receipts, disposals and outstanding case volumes across jurisdictions. The most recent figures were updated on 10 December. Taken together, this data forms the primary basis for our internal modelling on recovery, along with additional intelligence from the operational teams and planned interventions as set out in our published recovery plans. The full data is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/hmcts-weekly-management-information-during-coronavirus-march-to-november-2020