Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for special measures at court were (a) made and (b) granted in each of the last five years.

HM Courts and Tribunals does not hold the data centrally on how many applications for special measures at court were (a) made and (b) granted in each of the last five years.

Applications made at court are recorded but do not identify the type or the specific volumes of each which are received and granted.

Similarly judicial directions are made but there is no categorisation to which aspect of a case these refer or if they are in response to a particular application.