Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 41447

Courts

Tabled: 26 March 2025
Answered: 3 April 2025

Question

Munira Wilson

Liberal DemocratTwickenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of court hearing records that were (a) lost and (b) not recorded in the last (i) 12 months and (ii) 5 years.

Answer

Sarah Sackman
Data on information on audio recording failures is not collated or held centrally. Hearings across the Crown Court, Family Court, County Court, High Court, and Court of Appeal, as a matter of routine, are digitally audio recorded, among other things so as...

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