Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many participants there were in the Flexible Operating Hours pilot scheme.
HMCTS has appointed a consortium of IFF Research and Frontier Economics to carry out an independent evaluation of the Flexible Operating Hours pilots. The evaluation report will be published following completion, in the autumn.
The evaluation is being conducted as set out in the evaluation plan, published July 2019: Data has been collected on the number of cases heard in Flexible Operating Hours sessions rather than on numbers of participants. Public user surveys distributed to all participants in an FOH sessions contained 19 optional questions related to equality and diversity. This information is being collected by the independent evaluators and will inform their final report.