Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria his Department uses to assess whether the average time from first listing of a case to trial in a Crown court is (a) increasing and (b) decreasing; and whether the length of that period is assessed in each Crown court in England.

Data on time from first listing to completion is published in the Criminal Court Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics. This includes the Crown Court Case Timeliness Tool, which provides first listing to completion statistics for each Crown Court.