Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 100423
Crown Court: Midlands
Tabled: 16 December 2025
Answered: 22 December 2025
Question
Dr Luke Evans
Conservative — Hinckley and Bosworth
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to consider increasing the number of sitting days at [a] Leicester Crown Court [b] Coventry Combined Court Centre and [c] Warwick Crown Court.
Answer
Sarah SackmanThe Government is committed to bearing down on the backlog. In the Crown Court for this financial year, we have allocated 111,250 sitting days - the highest number of sitting days on record and over 5,000 more than the previous Government funded for the l...
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