Oral QuestionDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

When he plans to make a decision on development consent for the East Anglia Green Energy Enablement project.

Tabled: 11 January 2023Answered: 17 January 2023

Asked by

Priti Patel

ConservativeWitham

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Answer from Hansard

The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Sarah Sackman)

The last Government left a mess in every single corner of our justice system—our criminal courts and our civil courts. In the process, they let down not just victims of crime but businesses, employees, employers and children in care; every part of our system was left in a complete mess. That is what we are sorting out, with record Crown court sitting days—a commitment of 110,000 sitting days—and running almost to a maximum across all jurisdictions to bring down the backlog. We are sorting out the mess that we were left with.