HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Video Conferencing
(asked on 28th August 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service has paid to use each Cloud Video Platform room during the covid-19 outbreak.
This question was answered on 9th September 2020
Video technology has played a crucial role in enabling thousands of cases to be heard, alongside other measures including recently announced ‘Nightingale Courts’.
HMCTS has been steadily increasing the number of Cloud Video Platform (“CVP”) rooms available for use across all jurisdictions. Since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, HMCTS has spent £177,200 on licences to support the use of CVP rooms.