Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 94660

Courts

Tabled: 26 November 2025
Answered: 4 December 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of the time taken for court hearings.

Answer

Sarah Sackman
The Ministry of Justice published data concerning the average length of hearings in complete cases at the Crown Court as part of the Criminal Court Statistics series which is available at the following link: Criminal court statistics - GOV.UK The average...
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