Oral Question·Department for Transport
“What assessment he has made of the potential effect of the new train timetable on the reliability of rail services.”
Tabled: 12 January 2023Answered: 19 January 2023
Asked by
Ruth Cadbury
Labour — Brentford and Isleworth
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Transport
Answer from Hansard
Sarah Sackman
As the Lord Chancellor has said, our priority is delivering swifter justice for victims and bearing down on the Crown court backlog. That is why we have asked Sir Brian Leveson to consider all options, which have to include reclassification of offences and the intermediate court. We have to have a whole-system reform, but I fear that if we were to exclude those options, we would not be gripping the problem.