Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court cases have been postponed more than a) once, b) three times and c) five times in each of the last five years.

The Ministry of Justice does not hold data on the number of cases that have been postponed.

We do, however, routinely publish data on the number of criminal trials that do not go ahead on their scheduled start date and are subsequently rearranged (ineffective trials). This data is only available for trial cases, and the latest data can be found in the ‘Trial effectiveness at the criminal courts’ tool - Criminal court statistics quarterly: April to June 2026 - GOV.UK