Oral Question·Women and Equalities
“What recent steps she has taken to promote equality of opportunity for young people from low income and deprived backgrounds.”
Tabled: 26 May 2022Answered: 8 June 2022
Answering Minister
the Minister for Women and Equalities
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.