Courts: Tees Valley

(asked on 20th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the backlog of outstanding cases was at (a) Teesside Magistrates' Court, (b) Teesside Combined Court and (c) Peterlee Magistrates' Court at the end of March in each year since 2010; and what the backlog of outstanding cases was at Hartlepool Magistrates' Court in each year since 2010 until that court was closed.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 27th April 2021

The information requested can be found in the tables below.

The first table represents the number of outstanding cases for Teesside Crown Court cases.

The second table represents the number of outstanding cases at Teesside, Peterlee and Hartlepool Magistrates Courts.

Teesside Crown Court cases are reported separately to Teesside Magistrates Court cases as they are different courts.

HMCTS refer to all cases as outstanding rather than a backlog. Strictly speaking, the data below provided below is thus based on outstanding cases and not backlog of cases. There will always be a ‘stock’ of outstanding cases based on the size of each site and mix of cases.

Teesside Crown

Trials

Sentences

Appeals

March 2020

497

133

50

March 2019

413

109

45

March 2018

435

82

24

March 2017

567

88

30

March 2016

604

77

30

March 2015

735

51

46

March 2014

702

77

28

March 2013

474

90

23

March 2012

457

67

16

March 2011

556

51

26

March 2010

615

63

28

Magistrates

Date

Teesside

Peterlee

Hartlepool

Mar-20

5,279

1,209

Mar-19

4,935

1,441

Mar-18

5,407

1,052

Mar-17

5,970

1,125

Mar-16

2,630

1,263

301

Mar-15

2,387

1,570

473

Mar-14

2,882

1,515

492

Mar-13

3,396

797

619

Mar-12

3,382

919

601

Mar-11

2,685

632

614

Mar-10

2,827

666

934

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