Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether HM Courts and Tribunals Service conducts comparative assessments of the time from cases first being listed in the Crown court to first hearing dates for each court centre.
At court house level, HM Courts and Tribunals Service conducts comparative assessments of the time from offence to charge, charge to first listing, first listing to completion. These are published national statistics and the latest data can be found within the Criminal Court Case Timeliness Tool at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2019