Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to uphold the constitutional importance of judicial review.

The Government’s reforms to judicial review provide a more balanced and practicable approach that will ensure cases with merit can proceed quickly through to resolution and unmeritorious claims which abuse the system and cause unnecessary delays are filtered out at the earliest opportunity.

There is nothing in the reform package which undermines the constitutional role of judicial review as a vital check on the State.