Courts and Tribunals

(asked on 11th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the level of the backlog in (a) courts and (b) tribunals in each region in each of the last six months.


Answered by
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Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 16th June 2020

In response to the level of the backlog in (a) courts in each region in each of the last six months, National Statistics on the level of outstanding work in the crown and magistrates’ courts for the first and second quarter of 2020 are due for publication in June and September 2020 respectively at the following link; https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics. National Statistics for the period up to December 2019 have been published at the same link. National Statistics on the level of outstanding work in the family and civil courts are not available.

In response to the level of the backlog in (b) tribunals in each region in each of the last six months, data for the period October 2019 to March 2020 is provided at Annex A. These figures represent the total number of cases outstanding in each jurisdiction. Official Statistics on the level of outstanding work in tribunals for the second quarter of 2020 are due for publication in September 2020 at the following link; https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.

Figures on the level of outstanding work at the national level in the largest jurisdictions across HM Courts & Tribunals Service are published as monthly management information at the following link; https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmcts-management-information. The exception to this is the civil courts, for which figures relating to outstanding work are not currently collated because a large proportion of cases that begin are subsequently settled out of court or discontinued without HMCTS being notified. The latest figures relate to April 2020 for most jurisdictions and March for the family courts.

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