Oral Question·Department for Transport
“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 4 June 2026Answered: 11 June 2026
Asked by
Mr Bayo Alaba
Independent — Southend East and Rochford
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Transport
Answer from Hansard
The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Heidi Alexander)
It is good to be back. Mr Speaker. The Government are committed to reducing caseloads and bringing waiting times down for court users across all jurisdictions. We continue to keep 18 Nightingale courtrooms open across eight venues, so that we have more physical capacity to hear cases in all jurisdictions. We plan to sit more than 105,000 days in the Crown court and more than 102,000 days in the family court this financial year, enabling us to work through as many cases as possible.