Sally Jameson

Sally Jameson

Labour (Co-op) — Doncaster Central

Speaking in the House of Commons on 8 December 2025

Debate

Restriction of Jury Trials

Contribution

I am pleased, if not a little surprised, to see how keen the Conservatives have been to talk about issues of criminal justice in recent weeks, considering they showed next to no interest when they were in government and I was working in the prison system. I believe that the last Government stated that they would bring the Crown court backlog back to 53,000 by March 2025. Can the Minister therefore outline what the backlog was when we took office in July 2024? That figure is incredibly important when we are looking at why we need to take the bold action that has been announced by the Government in the past week.

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